Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> but why? is there some concrete advantage to using Debian? >>> I've never understood why Debian users tend to be very True Believer, >>> or what it is that hooks them. >> >> And the Debian users can say the same thing about Red Hat users. Or SUSE > > very nice! an excellent parody of the True Believer response.
Actually, he was just being reasonable. > but I ask again: what are the reasons one might prefer using debian? > really, I'm not criticizing it - I really would like to know why it > would matter whether someone (such as ClusterVisionOS (tm)) would use > debian or another distro. Often it is just a question of what the people using the system are used to. I often prefer using BSD systems, largely because of certain technical advantages, but also to a great extent because my first big Unix boxes were Vaxes running 4.2BSD in the early 1980s and after 25 years with the same flavor of Unix you get used to the way things are done. It is much the same reason I use Emacs instead of vi -- I started using Emacs on Tops-20 decades ago and I'm too used to it now. If you told me I "have" to use vi, things would get ugly, even though I don't think there is anything wrong with using vi per se. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
