Re: I worry...

1999-06-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Well, I do not think the fancy gui is what these people need in RH. It is avoiding having to deal with distro spesific quirks and loose some time and money becuase they would have to look into something "new". This was what several told us. Finally we did find a company that took on the task even

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
On 03 Jun 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > How will the Debian community be able to fight in a market like this > > in the future? > One suggestion, if you're worried, is to make a voluntary donation to > Debian. Most of the vendors of Debian disks offer the facility to do > this when you buy the

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Keith Beattie
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 10:44:57PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Please tell me I am wrong! :) > Not that this is any real consolation to you, but pessimistically speaking, everyone takes the same risk when depending on any piece of technology. Unless you are the maintainer of that techno

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Timothy Hospedales
>> We had a hard time finding someone willing to do our Debian server. All >> of the ones we contaced to get our web server built told us they felt "more >> confident doing a RH install" or they said: "RH is pretty strong in this >> ares", >> and some of them even had some nifty deals for us if we

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I do not really know if this belongs here, but I could not find anywhere else > seeming more "appropriate" for this than among Debian users. > > I have chosen Debian for my personal use, lately my company has chosen Debian > on several servers (in

Re: I worry...

1999-06-03 Thread Brad
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: > Hi, > > I do not really know if this belongs here, but I could not find anywhere else > seeming more "appropriate" for this than among Debian users. It's not that bad a place for it... Let's just hope no one decides to escalate this to holy war statu