Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 31, 2003 02:34 AM
This simply shows what the hard-headed Debian "developers" are reluctant to pick up and admit: that although Debian is "a *great* distro" (blah, blah, blah) it's frozen in time by way of their work processes, that are too slow to respond to necessary changes.
If you use Debian, you have to choose between a 1998 desktop, or make a hybrid that will break in the end. The fact is most people use a hybrid that defeats all the jive about "well, we aim for stability (blah, blah, blah)".
Debian should be bleeding edge, but it isn't. It is quickly becoming an ageing dinosaur. It doesn't tend to the *needs* of the actual community, and thus you begin to see all kinds of Debian forks.
As long as Debian chooses to have a bunch of "developers" who are really just "maintainers" of insignificant packages (some are really lame...I happen to know a bunchfull), at the same time having the same rights to vote as a Bruce Perens, or Colin Watson, it is bound to wither and die. It is already happening and all these forks with better GUI, better desktops, HW detection, etc, show.
I prefer FreeBSD, as it has a much more organized a hierarchical workflow.
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Another Debian fork should tell you something
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 31, 2003 02:34 AMIf you use Debian, you have to choose between a 1998 desktop, or make a hybrid that will break in the end. The fact is most people use a hybrid that defeats all the jive about "well, we aim for stability (blah, blah, blah)".
Debian should be bleeding edge, but it isn't. It is quickly becoming an ageing dinosaur. It doesn't tend to the *needs* of the actual community, and thus you begin to see all kinds of Debian forks.
As long as Debian chooses to have a bunch of "developers" who are really just "maintainers" of insignificant packages (some are really lame...I happen to know a bunchfull), at the same time having the same rights to vote as a Bruce Perens, or Colin Watson, it is bound to wither and die. It is already happening and all these forks with better GUI, better desktops, HW detection, etc, show.
I prefer FreeBSD, as it has a much more organized a hierarchical workflow.
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