[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[James Sumners]

He isn't suggesting that Debian is a "compile everything by hand"
distribution. He is saying Debian is difficult to install. Something
that I don't believe is true.

There is a difference, though. The default Debian install is very
basic. It provides a base from which to grow the system to suit your
needs. The default Ubuntu and SuSe installs drop you into a graphical
desktop environment.

On 8/22/07, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> I was reading this article on Linus Torvalds:
> http://apcmag.com/7017/linus_torvalds_talks_future_of_linux_page_3
> and he says this:
> So right now I happen to run Fedora on my machines, which largely came about
> from me running on POWER for a few years, and Fedora supported it pretty well
> (and since I actually don't care that deeply about the distribution, I tend
> to prefer running the same thing on everything, just to keep any distro
> issues away).
>
> Before Fedora had PowerPC support, I ran YDL for a while, and before that I
> had SuSE. 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..
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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