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iX's Debian Review

[I'm not on debian-private, since I got unsubscribed and can't resubscribe
 somehow: so please cc: the responses. If this was already discussed I 
 apologize]

I'm not sure whether I should post this to debian-private, 
(is there a better mailing-list?).

I've just finished reading the 'Distribution comparison' by the German
Magacine iX and the following might be a bit biased.

Background for readers not living in central europe:
iX is a well-known German computer magacine. Before april 1997 it was
called 'Multiuser/-tasking magacine' and was _the_ Unix-magacine for
german-speaking countries. On april this year they renamed themselves
to 'magacine for professioial information technology' after a (IMNSHO)
non-recoverable quality drop in november 1996 when they decided to focus 
on Windows NT. Now they mention NT every second sentence...

They compared Debian Linux 1.3.1 (from JF Lehmanns),
DLD Linux Pro 5.2, OpenLinux Standard, Power Linux 2.2 PTS-Linux 1.0,
Red Hat Linux 4.2, Slackware 3.2, and S.u.S.E Linux 5.0, Unifix Linux 2.0,
WGS Linux Pro 4.0.

It is rather difficult to translate the article in English, so if you wish
I try it, but the tone is rather negative: they implicitly complain that we
don't use RPM as the other distributions (which are more or less Redhat, e.g. 
COL or SUSE), they complain that dselect is non-intiutive (OK, thats a point), 
and the complain that the dependency check didn't work (huh? Is this true?).
Their overall impression is (quoting, translated to English):
``With Debian everything is a bit stranger as with other Linux-systems.
  Considering the price of nearly 20 DM and the fact that the CD-ROM doesn't
  have a copyright, you may want to live with it.''

Now this is too much. I didn't expect too good marks from iX, but why do we
get such a bad PR? Our rating is even more worse than S.u.S.Es!!
Are the magazines in other countries as clueless as iX?

David


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