Empty wrote:
> All of these are the same example- Debians FOSS-only policy in action.
> http://www.us.debian.org/intro/free
>
> With a Debian machine you have to willfully choose to go outside the
> realm of FOSS.
Which is part of my point. Another part being that with other distros
that process is easier if you so choose to do so.
How about a NON Debian policy example.
USB sticks and automatically showing up when plugged in: I haven't used
etch so I don't know how much progress has been made on this front
lately but most other distros setup hotplug and udev to make this work a
long time ago. (Has Debian even moved to udev yet? They had just
gotten devfs into the installer 2 yrs ago when the kernel developers
deprecated it.)
Sarge CAN do auto-mount of usb if I spend a lot of time fixing it after
figuring out what to install myself (again typical of a debian
installation). Last I tried it didn't work after an hour of tweaking.
Let me re-affirm, Debian is in the right to work this way. I'm not
against it. Debian does not install and configure a ton of extra stuff
because as a developer I want to pick and choose what gets installed.
Have anyone done a minimal install of Fedora lately? It weighs in at
over 800M on FC5. A miminal Debian install is something like 50M.
I can come up with all sorts of reasons for why I think Debian is for
developers and end users should start with another distro but these are
all just my opinion. Everyone should use what works for them.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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