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Re: Distributions for devfs

To: Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Distributions for devfs
From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:00:31 +0200
Cc: Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, chippo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20020421232057.337D6281EF@lyta.coker.com.au> (Russell Coker's message of "Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:20:56 +0200")
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Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > > Debian/woody has good devfs support.
> > >
> > > I fix most bugs that are reported against devfsd in <24 hours.
> > > I've checked out many other Debian packages and filed bug
> > > reports where they didn't work well with devfs.
> > >
> > > Richard, has anyone from any other major distribution sent you
> > > more patches than I did?
> >
> > I haven't counted. I've gotten a fair number of patches from the
> > Mandrake people as well.
>
> The Mandrake people are pretty good.  It's a good second choice.  ;)

well, debian is my second preferred distro :-) [1], after mdk of
course.
mdk would have used deb packaging if rh installer wasn't a nicer piece
to use when we created our distro ...
well, in fact, i love also the one file spec of rpm and dislike the
all-in-one patch approach of deb.
but i like the suggested, debconf, debhelper, ... stuff. we had to
reinvent the wheel a little for rpm. if drakx had been coded 1year
before, we would probably have been a debian fork.

i've no pro or cons for other distro but for those who writes non gpl
code ...

anyway, debian and mandrake (alphabetically sorted :-) ) are the
distro i would recommand.

[1] both from an ethical and a technical view point.

-- 
"il a ete brule au 28e degre" (the naheulbeuk witch)


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