Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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Basically, i agree, however the APT system is particulary very nice and not tied to Debian; Debian-based distributions use it as well. Those might be a good choice instead of Debian.
"BTW: people say that Debian is out of date. This is surely true of the stable branch. Try the unstable branch. It is as up to date as any good distro, and works at least as well, if not better."
Or Sarge, which is currently the Testing branch* which'll become the Stable branch in some while. There are less possibilities Sarge will break, it is more stable than Unstable(duh, evil)/Sid(duh, evil), about as up2date as unstable while far more up2date than Stable/Woody. A perfect middle ground and many desktop computers use Sarge instead of Woody. Woody however is rock and rock stable.
(*) Debian branch system might be slightly confusing. Here's a small, fast, incomplete learning curve for the reader who's interested:
*** Potato ***
In this situation, which was the situation of a few years ago, Potato is the Stable branch. The testing branch is currently tested (and developed), which gets a flow from Unstable where you'll never know what you're gonna get. If you like to fix problems, help debugging, are a developer, etc. that is NP but if you want it to Just Work and if time == money then you'd better not use Unstable.
* Stable: "Potato"
* Testing: "Woody"
* Unstable: "Sid"
*** Woody ***
In the following situation a new Stable has been released and very well tested. It also took some time though.
* Stable: "Woody"
* Testing: "Sarge"
* Unstable: "Sid"
As you notice, Potato is the old Stable, Woody was Testing and became Stable after much testing, and Sid remained the same Unstable. It is because Sid is evil, and is and will always be Still In Development.
That's the small course see http://www.debian.org for some information.