Why I use Debian. Was Re: [plug] Mandrake - printing

[Christian]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > To Greg: Does this mean you've sworn off APT? :-)
> Well, yeah, rules of thumb... I think you broke my thumb. I meant at an
> applications level. Obviously the things that are part of the distro such
> as package management and install disks don't have to be universal, or
> there wouldn't be such things as different distros. Point taken though -
> there are things that should be universal that are inexplicably not taken
> up by others, though Corel, Storm and the one I _still_ can't remember the
> name of do apt now, too.

Yeah, I wasn't serious actually because I do take your point and agree
with it (sort of).  If one distribution introduced something new that
was better than what the others had but was free (GPL and/or BSD
licensed probably: at least DFSG-compliant) and didn't introduce
incompatibilities then I would be in favour of it.  APT meets these
criteria I feel (the incompatibility with RPM is with the package format
which is both pre-existing and not strongly connected with APT).  On the
other hand something new which was either non-free OR introduced new
incompatabilities would be something I would generally avoid.

BTW, I think the name you can't think of is "Storm Linux".

Regards,

Christian.