You may be on to something here. I started looking at Debian parly because of all the good things Debian users had to say about it in the other mailing lists (ie gnome-list). Also I upgraded to RH7 =p. (What vendor would be so stupid as to use an incomplete compiler that is totally incompatible with everything?)
I haven't yet installed Debian, just looking for the time. :-) -D PS. I am in school too, so that may have had an effect On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:43:07 Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | | Damon, | | I think it's the redhat upgrade to 7.0! heeheehee. | | Also, it could be that so many books are hitting the shelves about linux | and linux+pure=debian. | | Linux in school is also exposing this distro to the next generation. | | Microsoft STILL wants money for that thingy they sell. | | Gosh, this is without actually committing any real thought to the matter :) | | Tatah | | On Wednesday 13 December 2000 00:13, Damon Muller wrote: | | > > Hi folks, | > | > I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed a signigicant increase | > in posts in the last few weeks. It seems that, not that long ago, I'd be | > lucky to get over 100 in a single day. These days it seems to be | > regularly over 200. | > | > It's a bit weird, because it's not as if there are any really long | > threads or flame wars. There doesn't seem to have been a noticable | > change in the sorts of things that have been posted (with the exception, | > maybe, that there seem to be a lot of XFree 4-related posts (and also | > the recent Dr Kroger thing, but that was relatively minor)). | > | > I'm not suggesting splitting the lists, or that newbies should go away, | > or anything like that. I'm just wondering if anyone else has any | > thoughts on the phenomenon. Maybe it's just beacue people are æxpecting | > to have time off over christmas where they can work out this linux | > thing. | > | > cheers, | > | > damon |
