Debian: contempt for "end user" values has to stop!"

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 21 16:45:03 BST 2009


David Gerard wrote:

> (That said, there's two jobs I recently applied for *because* they
> were running Debian. Not that Red Hat/CentOS isn't a perfectly good
> Unix-like operating system that does pretty much anything you'd want a
> Unix-like to do - but that they were using Debian showed they'd
> *thought about* what OS to use, rather than just using a Red Hat
> variant because everyone does and it's something you won't get fired
> for.

I suspect many Red Hat adherents would disagree with that, but I admin a 
Centos system and it's Centos for _exactly_ that reason.  And I hate it...  
I'm seriously considering moving _my_ part of that system to Ubuntu VMs.
-- 
derek





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