http://www.osnews.com/story/16494/Debian_Etch_loves_the_Slug Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:58:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?182491 http://osnews.com/thread?182491 Ok, debian might be good for a some servers.
But who wants four year old software (in stable) and an arrogant community.
Anyone I know who uses debian is happy to claim it's superior to everything else called gnu/linux and is happy to flame newbies. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ParanoidAndroid) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182524 http://osnews.com/thread?182524 thought I had missed the announcement and somehow a miracle had occured

Debian's forthcoming 'Etch' distribution was released yesterday Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182530 http://osnews.com/thread?182530 debian will rule the world.

NOTE: im not trying to troll, persey. i just very strongly believe it is a stable well enough known and copied distro to actually achieve this goal. be it in derivatives, or as the one distro to bind them. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zedicus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182537 http://osnews.com/thread?182537 I agree. Canonical may do a great job putting all the right pieces together to make Ubuntu a great distro, but without its Debian roots, I don't think it would be any better than the rest of them. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (brewmastre) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182545 http://osnews.com/thread?182545 And the thing was a piece of crap. I bought one and noticed that there was a firmware update available for it that addressed some critical bugs. In full Linksys style, I went to the management web page to load the firmware. Half way through, the update failed. The device rebooted and stopped responding completely. After a call to Linksys tech support, we deemed the device dead. RMA number one. I got my replacement and found that without the firmware upgrade, several key features were broken. With great trepidation, I attempted another firmware upgrade, only to end up with yet another dead NSLU2. The second RMA was for a refund and have since gone to using a small form factor system for my network storage. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rugmonster) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182546 http://osnews.com/thread?182546 The thing is, not everyone wants their ingredients selected for tham and the cake already made and fed to them.

That is what is so cool about debian IMO, so many ways to install, so many choices to make, so many ingredients to make whatever you want...debian doesn't *just* make a distro it makes ingredients and you can make whatever type release you want. Of course, you can also just choose a "canned" debian if you wish.

Now if they just get back on the focus of free again. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deanlinkous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182560 http://osnews.com/thread?182560 If I need a headless web server for something around the house. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snozzberry) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182570 http://osnews.com/thread?182570 i have done it all - freebsd (95-present), redhat (up to fedora), fedora 1-3, ubuntu...of all of them, debian etch is the best OS i have used, i respect its principles and i intend to make it the last OS i install. of the rest, i also like ubuntu, but i prefer debian's policies and lack of boot-up music. freebsd is also good, but the day of ports has ended. the ports tree has grown to many megabytes while my sources.list is four lines...the day of managing a repository on the client passed some time back.Browser: ELinks/0.11.1-1-debian (textmode; Linux 2.6.17-2-686 i686; 91x34-2) Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (theGrump) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182572 http://osnews.com/thread?182572 I'd have to bring in a shaman or a priest at that stage, must be under some kind of curse. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182753 http://osnews.com/thread?182753 And you expected anything else from *Linksys*? Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182837 http://osnews.com/thread?182837 Yes - I completely agree. Apart from Etch there is only Ubuntu which is worth trying - at least for me. But Ubuntu is a little bit too kiddy-like for my taste - so it's Etch. And Etch _is_ rock solid already. Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deb2006) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?182971 http://osnews.com/thread?182971 No, it's a great piece of hardware. And with full Debian support, it's just amazing!! Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pepa) Comments