Convince me about Debian

[Derek Neighbors]

Tom Achtenberg said:
> I just looked at that site.  I am really curious about the statement
> that Mandrake has gone under and Suse is soon to follow.  Mandrakes site
> looks like they are still up and running.  Anyone know if Mandrake has
> indeed gone under like Debian says?

For the record, Debian has not said Mandrake has gone under.  Some
personal user of Debian who put up an advocacy site has said so.  Please
don't equate this person's opinion as the stance of Debian.

In fact on the home page it even says:
This site is in no way affiliated with the Debian Project, the debian.org
Web site, or
Software In The Public Interest, Inc. No endorsement of this site by the
Debian Project
or Software In the Public Interest is expressed or implied. Debian and the
Debian logo
are registered trademarks of Software In The Public Interest, Inc. Linux
is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. The Tux penguin graphic is the creation of
Larry Ewing.



-derek