> >In the end - I see the only people using Debian are the gear-heads who are > >apt fans. Make way for Corel and Storm - the debian descendants. > > What's a gear head? Umm, aren't Corel and Storm based on the current stable > dist? Last time I tried either of them, they were a debian core with a bunch > of garbage and a crappy install (by that I mean no control) And storms front > end for apt was clunky and unpredictable at best. > > On the same note, everyone I know that runs debian, runs theunstable branch. I > run frozen on our production boxes here at sistina. > > Debian isn't going anywhere man. It's the most popular dist among real linux > enthusiasts and power users, and truth be told has by far and away the best packaging system. I didn't say it was going anywhere. Slackware is also quite popular among gear heads, but it is slowly slipping away (nobody is partnering with them :). I personally don't like any of them that well (debian and slackware are the best though), so I have built my own distro. It is running on my development box now - but when it is finished and I have some reasonable way to install it (clunky boot disk with reiserfs and tar -> chroot right now) I will put it on my server to replace my BSD box. Ah - Corel and/or Storm support glibc-2.1.x and the 2.2 kernels - so I don't think they are based upon Debian stable. I was not advocating those distros - just saying that general public support of Debian will wane with these out there (if they live up to the hipe). A gear head is just what you mentioned - a power user - somebody who tinkers with the OS. BTW - just running apt-get doesn't make the system a heck of a lot different than installing an RPM - other than you didn't have to go find it. Sort of like the port system on FreeBSD but binary based (instead of source based - which I prefer). Essentially, everyone on this list is a gearhead, which is why Debian is so popular on this list. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.ent > > -- > Ben Lutgens Cell: 651.387.9065 Home: 651.703.9541 > > "I thought Christmas only comes once a year..." > James Bond - The World Is Not Enough > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org