"Leif B. Kristensen" <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Saturday 08 April 2006 01:21, Tyler MacDonald wrote: >>Debian a niche distribution? I'd hardly call the defacto standard >>GNU Linux distribution a "niche"... > > Surely, Debian is "niche". Why else should there be a need for > distributions like Gentoo? > > I once tried to run Debian, and asked for help on some probably > elementary question on the Debian users list. All I got in the way of > help was "read the f*ing manual". Sure, very helpful indeed. Later, I > installed Gentoo and was positively amazed at the level of help you > would get on the Gentoo-forum. I never looked back to Debian. You can dislike it all you want (and I'm not saying you don't have reason to), but Debian is *not* "niche". There are a *lot* of servers out there running it, and it's also the basis for Ubuntu, which by itself is at least as popular as Gentoo from what I can see. On the server side, I'd put Debian in the top three along with RH and SuSE. Even if the mailing lists are unfriendly. But we're wandering off-topic. :) -Doug
