[1373] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat vs. Debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Aug 12 17:22:24 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:21:39 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, mhpower@MIT.EDU, sit@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:13:00 EDT,
<199608122113.RAA18760@toxicwaste.media.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:13:00 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> Both RedHat and Debian are technically quite good. Unfortunately for
> Debian, very few people are actually using RedHat; there are many, many
> more people using RedHat. (It's a bit quite like the situation of
> NetBSD vs. Linux, actually. Both are technically good, and the
> technical quality is on the whole more or less the same --- however,
> many more people are using Linux.)
Umm, don't you mean that "Unfortunately for Debian, very few people
are actually using Debian; there are many many more people using
RedHat"? Just wanted to make sure.
Err.. yes. Sorry about that typo.....
> Unfortunately, I won't be able to make tonight's meeting; I did want to
> make an observation of the RedHat vs. Debian question. I think we
> should go with supporting RedHat.
This is unfortunately. I would have liked to have you there, for
moral support if nothing else ;)
I was out of town on Friday, giving a talk, so I didn't read your e-mail
until today. Unfortunately, I had already made another commitment for
this evening.
- Ted
