Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-22 Thread tko
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Well, some one has indeed moved on to wider Horizons. The > ex-project leader of Debian, who is very widely respected, has indeed > left the project, and we are poorer for that. No argument about that. 8-) > > But then, everything changes and adapts (or

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-21 Thread Mike Miller
> "James" == James D Freels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days, > months, years, etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware > failures (hard drives being the most vulnerable) not > software. Absolutely. We've run a data acquisit

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread cleto
> On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 09:24:07AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > > In my mind several factors stand out about Debian: > > > > (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days, months, years, > > etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware failures (hard drives being > > the most vulnerable

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Steve Mayer
Mike, (and everyone on the list)Sorry for the "me too" letter, but I have to give my kudos to the entire Debian community. Having used Linux since 1991 on a 386sx 16 with kernel build .99, and having tried Slackware, Redhat, Caldera, Turbo Linux, and lastly Debian, I must echo James's sentiment

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Michael" == Michael Acklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> The first few message I received caused me to rethink my Michael> decision on Debian, as looked like some thing or someone had Michael> quit or the project was going down hill. I thought maybe I Michael> should look at Red Hat

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 09:24:07AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > In my mind several factors stand out about Debian: > > (1) The stable version is stable (really runs for days, months, years, > etc.). The MTBF becomes tied to hardware failures (hard drives being > the most vulnerable) not softwa

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread Michael Acklin
At 09:24 AM 3/20/98 -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > >This is coming from an end-user of Debian: > >I wish I had the ability and time to contribute more directly to >Debian. However, I can contribute this response to some of the >concerns I have seen on this mailing list. > >Debian by far is the mo

On Debian, currently.

1998-03-20 Thread James D. Freels
This is coming from an end-user of Debian: I wish I had the ability and time to contribute more directly to Debian. However, I can contribute this response to some of the concerns I have seen on this mailing list. Debian by far is the most rock solid Linux distribution I have used (used several