Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian - conclusion

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 24 August 2004 22:15, Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:29:59AM -0700, Mukhsein Johari wrote:
> > Debian seems to be the popular distro for customizers
> > because:
>
> I suppose what I was  trying to articulate  before (and failed) can be
> expressed much   more clearly than  what I'd  tried before, in  a nice
> syllogism:  (a) Debian  users tend  to be  religous zealots about  the
> distro; (b) of all distro religions Debian seems to be the most suited
> to  "custom projects" (i.e.  slack  userbase is  too small/old, RH too
> newbie/corporate, Gentoo  too  hax0rrific); therefore (c) most  custom
> projects  which use a  distro at  all (as opposed  to the roll-yer-own
> Linux) tend to be Debian-based.


agree. but then how is it small userbase affect custom project? Kind of lost 
on that reasoning here. 


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