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

[Peter Wright]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:08:27AM +0800, Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
> > If I wanted to upgrade to a new release and xxxxdist has Oracle
> > and I want to play with Oracle, getting xxxxdist makes sense.
> 
> Does it? Oracle is, AFAIK, completely distribution-independent, so
> it'd be a very poor basis on which to choose distributions.

I think he was using it as an example. Hence the use of xxxxdist,
otherwise known as "some arbitrary distribution" and Oracle, otherwise
known as "some arbitrary killer app".

> -Greg

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