Re: [MiNT] OT: Debian

[evan@coolrunningconcepts.com]

Quoting Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>:
> I have about 15 servers running Debian that never broke after an
> upgrade. And there are tons of other people that never had such problem
> (I read debian mailing list so I'd know that). That's pretty weird. Did
> you try to trace it down, to let the debian maintainers know it, to fill
> a bug report at least?

I won't use Debian for the same reason I won't an Amiga - the user-base is too
fanatical to the point of unreasonable.  No matter what distribution you use,
it comes down to 2 issues :

1 - Any type of automated upgrade can break the system.  Even source-based
distributions such as Gentoo, although compiling from source is somewhat less
likely to have library linkage problems than binaries.

2 - If it breaks, you must either know how to trace down why and fix 
it, or you
shouldn't be using Linux as your server.  For desktop systems, contact your
vendor.

Everything else is personal preference - every distro has its quirks, 
and Debian
has its own.  Those that love Debian, know its quirks, and don't even notice
them.  Those for whom debian isn't a preferrence, it may possibly be the wrong
distribution to use for that person.   Don't badger the person and claim the
distribution is never at fault and has to be 100% perfect.   Thats just silly.

Maybe we can kill this thread?