Another distribution gives up the ghost? [LWN.net]

Another distribution gives up the ghost?

Posted Nov 4, 2003 18:14 UTC (Tue) by stuart (subscriber, #623)
In reply to: Novell acquires SUSE by davidl
Parent article: Novell acquires SUSE

Well folks could just use (and improve) Debian.

Debian is properly Free software and has really high quality packages and package management. Apparently its installer sucks (personally I find it easier than these graphical thingumies) but that is being addressed and now Progeny have ported Red Hat's anaconda install system to Debian (i386 anyway).

So I guess my feeling is, why worry, we already have a great GNU/Linux distribution which supports the most platforms in the form of Debian so if SUSE, RedHat/Fedora and Mandrake all give up producing desktop distributions it won't matter.

Donations to SPI, I am sure, would help though :-)

Stu.

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