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

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Peter Wright wrote:
> 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".

Then I reiterate: Anything distribution-specific is not a "killer app.".
It is either poorly programmed or ridiculously restricted by license.
This of course does not include thing like APT, rpmfind, as mentioned
above, because those are part of what makes a distribution unique - if
Redhat used APT, it would no longer be Redhat.

-Greg