Verily I say unto thee, that John Bailo spake thusly:
> BearItAll wrote:
>
>> I would say that the new person has to embrace the current tight manpower
>> structure of Debian. Debian's strength is that it is a solid base, fully
>> capable in it's own right, but the best distro to build on for other
>> sub-distros, it would be very easy for Debian to fit pretty ribbons and
>> effectively take all of the other Debian based distros out of the
>> reckoning. But that would in my view take the emphasis away from the true
>> strength of Debian.
>
> Debian is the CPM of the Linux distro world.
>
> An interesting prehistoric relic, but superceded by the new commercialized
> brand of Linux sold by Suse/Novell.
Frankly I think Debian is a far better role model for Linux than Novell,
both in terms of it's software and politics.
As for being superseded, I think the (Debian based) Ubuntu has pretty
much superseded everything else, certainly in terms of popularity, if
not in every other way.
--
K.
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