Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy at veldy.net> [000628 09:11]: > > Ah - Corel and/or Storm support glibc-2.1.x and the 2.2 kernels - > > so I don't think they are based upon Debian stable. I was not > > advocating those distros - just saying that general public support > > of Debian will wane with these out there (if they live up to the > > hipe). Actually, this is only a marketing issue, not whether there will or will not be support to Debian. Did you know that the Corel and Storm distributions pull packages directly from the Debian archives? The only thing unique about Corel and Storm is that they add a few commercial software packages in the lot. Guess where they put them? In dedicated directories that conform to the apt-get tool. Guess where they point users for new packages? Yep, the Debian distribution. Corel may be better at providing a full mirror of Debian than Storm is, as Storm has a line for pulling Debian packages in their default sources.list. I'm not 100% about Corel's sources.list. It's been a while since I've had a chance to dig into the config on an available box. Basically, we're trying to predict what the public will do without looking at trends. Why does Debian get new users? Maybe they hear that their distribution is based on Debian and they want to hit the source rather than some watered-down mirror. Maybe they're actively searching for the best way to support the use of Free Software (TM), so they pick the only distribution who's Social Contract states that very mission. No, I don't see Debian popularity dropping any time soon. The real battle to concentrate on is the packaging systems and the policies for Quality Control. Whomever has the best scheme will come out on top. Of course, the term "best" has some strong capatilistic Darwinisms to it, but let's hope that the best technology wins rather than the most popular or the most marketed. <^chewie places his bet on Debian> <personal experience> I was fortunate to have friends who pointed me in the Right Direction (TM) from the start, the time when I fully committed myself to learning about Linux. Sure, I've run RedHat. I had a copy of 4.2 running for about a year, yet I didn't have the full drive until I saw how effective the 486X33 Debian firewall I installed (with the help of my friends) ran at work. At that point, I was caught hook, line, and sinker, and I haven't regretted the decision to focus my time and energy into Debian Linux. </personal experience> Yes, I'm a certifiable "gear head." -- Chad "^chewie" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://wookimus.net/chewie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 242 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20000629/561ba95e/attachment.pgp -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org