[ale] Linux Distributions

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue May 17 09:28:57 EDT 2005


I don't think he really had a point. He wasn't quite bashing Debian
but he wasn't representing it well either. I was trying to point out
that the problems he has with Debian are not of Debian's making but
his own as Mr. Kinney pointed out.

On 5/17/05, Jonathan Rickman <jrickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/05, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Those are actually six problems and none of them are really "Debian
> > problems." Debian is not a distribution for those that need their hand
> > held; that is what Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE are for. With Debian
> > you are going to thave to do some work.
> 
> I think you just made his point for him without realizing it.
> 
> Slackware for me, btw.
> 
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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