[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Brian Pitts]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch
> are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm 
> concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to 
> install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), 
> so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't 
> interesting to me. 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Compile everything by hand??? other than the .deb vs rpm, I don't see that 
> much difference between Ubuntu & SUSE.. or is it me..


Yeah, Linus occasionally makes these comments. I take it to mean he 
hasn't looked at Debian since Sarge was released in 2005. Before Sarge, 
the Debian installer did have a reputation for orneriness. I still doubt 
that Linus would have had trouble with it.

-Brian