On 8/20/13, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:12:15AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On a more hair splitting note, we could say it is Universal, at the >> price of being a little more generic sometimes than it could otherwise >> be. > > If you are going to split hairs. :) I'd say that the more Universal > something is the more generic it is. If you get less generic then are > you also less Universal also? > >> This is a positive note, since we are naming Debian as universal in >> more ways than one! >> >> Eg: >> - runs on every arch > > Agreed. "Every" is a bit strong here, but true, it does run on a lot. > >> - runs all software > > No. > >> - runs in (almost) every way you'd like > > It's default base install is one of the reasons I like it. > >> But of course, the set of >> (installation preferred default sets) >> +(menu options lists short enough to be sensible) >> +(reasonable installation image size) >> >> is perhaps the empty set. > > Interesting you should think this, can you give an example.
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