Hello!
I think that Debian is the best Linux distribution , since it suports free
software , and it is easy to install and upgrade , and higly stable and
secure. Is the linux distribution that better reflects the spirit of free
software.
But I think that there is something that we should care about. Some
packages are rather old and should be updated more frequently.
Some examples:
The current version of Xfree is 3.3.5 ( from ftp.xfree86.org) but the
xfree in the stable release is 3.3.3 (I think) . This is crucial since
some video cards (like Sis 620) are only supported by the new version.
The same happens with gnome (I was able to get from ftp.gnome.org debian
packages for slink that are newer than the ones from ftp.debian.org , but
they are not there any more).
I think that we should consider:
1) Create some easy-to-use tools for making debian packages ( not for
experts I mean) in order that everybody can make a debian package and
so debian is updated faster (or perhaps we could get debian packages
from elsewhere , if someone want to make a program freely avaliable it
would be nice that he could make easy a debian package).
2) Try to agree with the other linux distributions in a uniform package
format . I think we should consider use the "rpm" format for debian.
The are excelent tools from red-hat (under GPL) for installing rpm
( glint is more intuitive than dselect ) , and let me say that is easy to
find "rpm" packages than "deb".
Greets from Buenos Aires (Argentina) and thank you!
Pablo De Napoli
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