On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:12, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to compile the reasons why people use/like/swear by > Debian. I would greatly appreciate if you could let me know what > makes you be part of the Debian crowd, in private mail (Reply-To > set). Of course, I will send the results when they are complete to > this list.
Here they are in no certain order, as they are all exceptionally important to me: The Debian Developers Reference Manual (tries to) provide(s) consistency. The Distributed nature of availability and development. The ease maintaining it. The willingness to undertake such task, by volunteers. Pretty good documentation for a buncha 31337 coders. The DFSG. The DSC. The give back to upstream is tremendous. About 35 different ways to actually INSTALL the distro, including Karsten's Chroot method, Debootstrap, dpkg-deb -x, apt-get, manually (for those really into pain)...etc. Acting as a tremendous base for other ditros, like: Xandros, Knoppix, Morphix, Lindows, Libranet... etc. Fault recovery is absolutely bar-none the best. (see http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32607.htm) Of which I have used it, for a similar (exact) reason. The list could go on, but I don't wanna steal everyone's thunder. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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