-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The company I work for produces visual development tools for several Unix platforms, and is currently working on an official Linux port (the developers have been doing some work under Linux for some time). Redhat will be the primarily supported distro, which is not surprising. They are also going to be testing under Suse and possibly Slackware and Caldera. I mentioned Debian to them, and they told me that there were no plans to officially acknowledge Debian in any way. I couldn't really get a legitimate reason out of them when I asked why this was. I was really surprised when they mentioned the possibility of supporting Slackware over Debian.
These guys are experienced Unix developers, and they've all been using Linux for significant amounts of time. So it's not like they're just moving over from Win95 and can't see anything but the shrink-wrapped Redhat packages at the local software store. I've used Redhat 4.2 and 5.1 and some old slackware release. I've been using Debian for the past couple of years, and I have no doubts that it's the technically superior distribution. But there really seems to be a problem with the public's perception of it. I don't claim to know what this problem is, or how to solve it, but I think it's worth some attention. For some reason, a lot of people don't seem to view Debian as a legitimate distribution for a production system. Does anybody else have any thoughts on this subject? Noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNp9qwodCcpBjGWoFAQEpMAP/cncG2Ymb1+xtxDfeNtKUzAHbBRl5tYZ2 cpFxUg1yXEYAn3EqRbW0zWWBkJE3Yt1DnbcPpbJYbOLTaamA6g6447/602PL2MIz MQtws0YeBMsw5aseNEzWE7VR/KGN8XDJkqbk7SqLBUrZm4s0GKrpHrcUbjCjmcz1 o53T/bQ96fI= =KCnB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
