Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486

[Oisin C. Feeley]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:

> > So, what's left? 
> >
> > Slackware
> > Debian
> > ... and that's about it.
> >
> > Slackware is simple and pleasantly modular and has a fairly simple,
> > friendly installer. However, its package-management system is poor.
> >
> > Debian will install on anything, but the existing installer is a
> > dreadful, almost-unusable piece of rubbish. We'd need to start from
> > scratch. Its package management system is the best there is.
> >
> > Both are relatively user-unfriendly compared to SuSE with its YAST
> > tool or Caldera with LISA.
> 
> The Debian list is dominated by thugs and felons.  You put a big 
> bulls-eye on your chest when you post to it.
> 
> I'd prefer not to do anything that's going to get us involved with 
> Debian.  I prefer to be able to post to a list and not fear for my 
> life.
> 
> Glen

WTF?  Although I've run Debian in the past I'm a RH partisan, but I really 
have to ask is this the first troll of the RULE list?  Smearing and 
slandering doesn't help anyone.  The debian community has been very 
helpful to me in the past.

Oisin Feeley