On Sun, Jul 31, 2016, at 03:46, Brian Wengel wrote: > > Dear Debian community > > Maybe it’s just me, but as a rather new-comer to the Debian world a few > things puzzles me. > > 1: Going to the download section is like being taken 15 years back. Isn’t > it time to take the step to move away from the CD/DVD media and move into > the USB Flash drive arena? > ...
I'll stop quoting there, because the rest of your post has the same general tone. Debian is not a bleeding-edge distribution. Many of us use old hardware, hardware that has been abandoned by Windows long ago, hardware that in many cases has even been abandoned by other Linux Distributions. For example, Debian is one of the few Linux distributions, maybe the only Linux distribution, to still provide non-PAE kernels. Ubuntu has been providing only PAE stock kernels for some time now. Even if the hardware supports PAE, some of us prefer to run a non-PAE kernel because it uses less memory. If one's processor supports PAE, but the motherboard only supports a maximum of 2 GiB of RAM, what does a PAE kernel buy one? Nothing, as far as I can see. But some distributions have a one-size-fits-all slam it, jam it, cram it, attitude, an attitude based solely on minimizing their support costs, rather than on trying to provide what's best for as many users as possible. We like to think of ourselves as "The Universal Operating System". It's not truly universal, but it's close. A quick check of the ports page shows that we support about 10 official ports and about 20 unofficial ports. How many hardware platforms does Ubuntu support? If you like Ubuntu better than Debian, fine. Use Ubuntu. Nobody's stopping you. But don't come over here and try to tell us that we should be doing things the way Ubuntu does. We're different for a reason. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement: I'm sure there is. But asking questions is one thing. Telling us we should be like Ubuntu is another. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-
