On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 09-Feb-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll > > of distributions. Have you all voted? > > Why is that? I just ordered a copy because I have heard good things about the > distro.
RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly "free-er" nature, and techincal superiority Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
