On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:55:53PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 16:00]: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > > > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > > > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all > > > or doesn't handle well. > > > > "I can't write software to cope with this feature of the Linux kernel > > and therefore this distro that uses it is crap"? Please tell me it > > ain't so... > > no, it wasn't as simple as that. Hugo was trying to write portable > software, which is always a frustrating challenge. He did offer to > enumerate a list of reasons why he didn't like Debian. I don't remember > exactly what he said, but I remember thinking his reasons were valid at > the time. It's just his opinion after all, which, by accounts on the > current version of the site, has since favorably changed. Even then, > Hugo didn't want to exclude Debian; he had just had difficulty working > with it, and was fortunate to have Hector take care of the Debian stuff > for him.
Thanks, that's much more cheering! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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