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Skriven 2007-01-30 15:24:08 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
   Kommentar till text 9114 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: Fun find from the past
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Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:

 MK> Hey David!

 MK> Jan 24 16:52 07, David Calafrancesco wrote to Maurice Kinal: 

 DC> Are you asking how the various versions of Debian compare between the 
 DC> hardware platforms? They are identical in effect.

 MK> That is basically what I was asking.  I do realize that there has
 MK> to be some differences wrt the target machine, powerpc having it's
 MK> special needs for instance wrt booting etc., but I'd be more
 MK> concerned about not requiring too much a deviation from the general
 MK> distribution and release.

 MK> Have or are you using anything other then x86?

I have a friend who has used the PowerPC, SParc, Arm and possibly one or two
more platforms in addition to his x86 systems. 

 DC> What is best is a matter of what you are comfortable with and what 
 DC> your preferences are.

 MK> I find Slackware to be closest to what I am comforatble with.  It
 MK> requires the minimal amount of hacking to where I really want to
 MK> be.  I have yet to find or see a distribution nail it but Slackware
 MK> gets very close.  At the moment I have 64-bit issues with it but a
 MK> stock Slackware will boot given the cpu will run 32-bit apps.  I
 MK> imagine over the next few years this won't be an issue. 

 DC> I can relate why I prefer a Debian system over 
 DC> Red Hat or Fedora or Centos, however others who are more familiar 
 DC> with those platforms are likely to prefer them over Debian.

 MK> Out of those choices I'd choose Debian too.  First I'd lose the
 MK> need for the deb's though and the supplied kernel would quickly get
 MK> lost in the shuffle.  :-) I could say the same about Slackware
 MK> except the deb part.  They stuck with tar/gzip which suits me fine.
 MK>  

By changing to not use debs you lose much of why you would want to run a Debian
system. For you, Slackware or something similar might be best. Alternatively,
you could learn to package your own .deb files and work your system that way. 

 DC> Ultimately it has more to do with how we use our systems and what we 
 DC> want to get from them. 

 MK> Right.  I like to tweak.

 DC> One aspect that I believe Debian excells at is upgradeability.

 MK> That is an issue to me but usually I like to do that myself so them
 MK> supplying it is of littel consequence to me personally.  Having
 MK> said that I can understand why it *should* be an issue to most,
 MK> especially networking apps, primarily internetted apps.

 DC> Debian won't include proprietary matter. Ever. Period. However, 

 MK> Amen.  Very good idea methinks.  I've seen the light many, many,
 MK> many times over the years.

 DC> others may well package proprietary matter in a Debian format.

 MK> I haven't seen that but have seen many rpm's along that line. 

 DC> other distributions are based upon Debian and are further expanded to 
 DC> include proprietary matter. The Debian project aims to remain 
 DC> absolutely pure. Rabidly free is one way to describe their ethic. 

 MK> Haven't noticed other then Ubuntu wrt the nforce drivers.  I never
 MK> looked at it that hard.  The neighbour is playing with it and has a
 MK> few complaints. 

See Linspire for an example of a Debian based distro that includes proprietary
software. I think Xandros might be similarly based upon Debian. Mepis is also
Debian based and I believe has a per pay commercial suite of applications
included. Ububtu has a slightly different idea of what is meant by free. They
seem willing to incorporate compiled and released to the masses for free items,
whereas Debian itself won't distribute something whose doc files aren't also
considered free and open source. See the Debian.org website for specifics. 

Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.org

... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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