On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote:
> Dear debian users > > I would like to draw your attention to certain ugly an unlinuxy comment > on the web site of a > Linux distribution about other distribution(s). > > Quoting from > http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html > > Improved best-of-class package selection, with each Linux application > carefully chosen to be more useful and refined than the "everything but the > kitchen sink" products from some Linux packagers > > Unquote. > > This is an obvious reference to debian if not for others, which is the > largest distribution and include > most freely available packages. I strongly feel that this kind of comments > is very bad for Linux and > should be ripped in the bud itself and what is justfication for this when > the company seems to benefitting > from the works of millions of developers who test and 'robust'fy > applications that may have been called > toilet bowl applications in the near past. I may be unaware of some implications that you know of, but I don't feel that it would refer on debian. I think rather it refers on the individuals doing the packaging. And I don't think that debian has so bad reputation concerning the quality of packaging the softwares... Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does apply for redhat). Robert Varga
