[svlug] HW system for Linux?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:30:34AM -0800, Paul Cubbage (pcubbage at opencountry.com) wrote:
> Justin Ryan wrote:
> 
> >..... they tend to have a certain handle on the system that comes from 
> >_having_ to learn how everything works to get it up and going the first 
> >time 'round..
> >
> Ah yes, the Calvinist school of computing; salvation through suffering!

I disagree.

If you stay rigidly within the guides provided you by Red Hat, their
distro works for suitably low values of the term.  But change,
updating, and maintenance are a pain.  That IMO is suffering.

Debian takes away some of the training wheels.  But they also build a
bike that's stable by design, to stretch the analogy.

Having gone from RH to Debian, I distinctly recall learning far more in
my first six months of running Debian -- largely because the system was
accessible and didn't respond in strange and unpredictable ways -- than
I had in 2.5 years of running RH.

That's discipline (on the part of Debian, though it's spelled
P-O-L-I-C-Y), not suffering.

Peace.

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Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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