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> I haven't visited www.linuxchix.com lately; I'm just wondering whether
> any of them runs Debian.
As far as I know, there are plenty of Linuxchix members around that
use Debian, myself included. I first started using Linux in 1995,
mucked around with a couple of distri
David Blackman wrote:
>
> I love Debian, I use Debian, I administer Debian at my
> school. Why do I use Debian? Because my school uses it. Why does my
> school use it? Because they didn't like the GUIness of RedHat, and
> Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to a
David Blackman wrote:
>
> I love Debian, I use Debian, I administer Debian at my
> school. Why do I use Debian? Because my school uses it. Why does my
> school use it? Because they didn't like the GUIness of RedHat, and
> Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to a
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Godric wrote:
> Am I alone in believing the battle is between empowerment and
> profit?
Not at all alone I think that there are amny, who agree with you. For me
as well empowerment is the main issue.
> Between an interactive computer operating system, and a
> basically non
Hi!
Just some comments after reading the first posting and others.
My english is not perfect, nor I reply exactly to this thread.
I like Debian/Linux as it is.
It is a wonderfull distribution allowing me to get every time when "I"
want an update via Internet. (And not when others think I should
> the big battles and then mop up the little ones later. Get Linux on every
> webserver first ... then worry about the applications and pick them off
> one-by-one.
I think the same logic can be used to point to the need of getting Linux
to the desktop.
Until serious headway is made on the d
hi ya george/et.al
i think that debian might or might not suffer the same fate as all
the other linux's
- being absorbed into a commercial company or not ...
( at least the major players will be...
- linux could also become the "shareware/freeware" compared to old world of
George Bonser wrote:
> Embracing commercial software at first is the path to eventually winning.
> Let the commercial vendors in ... let them penetrate deep into linux. Then
> surround and destory them with free alternatives once you have them
> committed to your platform or convince them of the b
George Bonser wrote:
The computer is a tool. People often use it to get real work
> done with real deadlines. Real money depends on this work. Debian offers
> the best ENVORONMENT, so far, for maintaining and supporting software for
> Linux in the enterprise.
Not so cut-and dried. Debian offers
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:53:41 -0800 (PST)
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> There are a great many people for whom the only particular value
>> Debian brings to the table is apt-get and friends. They have no
>> interest in religion, no interest
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:11:03PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> Debian is a wonderful development model. Anyone can
> contribute to it.
Remember this statement ;)
> And everything must be Free Software, Free Software in the sense that
> it must be both open source, and modifiable. Open so
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:51:31 +1100
Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Blackman wrote:
>> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning
>> Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the
>> pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Blackman wrote:
david >Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to apt-get.
i was drawn to debian about a year and a half ago, never touched apt-get
till about 2 weeks ago! doh heheh
david > No it's not.
i like the idea of that, with debian's stand
> David Blackman wrote:
>
> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA,
>meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the
>pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel,
>Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and
>Staro
David Blackman wrote:
> Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA,
>meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the
>pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel,
>Netscape, and Sun, to include Wordperfect, Communicator, and
>Staroffic
I think you bring up many problems and issues that debian has. but
i don't think any of these issues haven't been the issue of a flame
war sometime or another.
debian is based upon the ideal that free software should be available
without sticky licensing issues so that you could do just what you'
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Blackman wrote:
[ snip uninformed ranting ]
: I'm going to get flamed for this. I know it. We don't want to
: think we're techno-snobs. We want to think our distribution is
: superior. We want to leave out KDE. We don't want Joe Blow to start
: with Debian, if h
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