[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[Michael B. Trausch]

Paul Cartwright, on 08/22/2007 04:30 PM said:
> 
> 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.
> 

I read that to, but I think that sentence could have been better
written.  I certainly can't claim to know what his opinions on
distributions such as Ubuntu and its relatives are, but I think that he
meant to say that the source distributions (LFS, Gentoo, etc.) and
Debian were in two separate categories that he liked neither of.

I did think that it was a very interesting read, though.  I have to
wonder what he sees in an RPM-based distribution, because from my
experience they require quite a bit more hands-on, low-level maintenance
than Debian based systems do (at least the package manager does).

	-- Mike

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