From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 12:43:38 MST
Eugene Leitl wrote:
> Particularly Debian (with it's 2k odd packages) is beautifully easy to
> upgrade.
Debian <http://www.debian.org/> rocks. It has been my
primary distribution since 1996. My (and everyone else's)
only complaint is that their release cycles are slow.
Debian is not only technically great, it's a great social
experiment. It must be the largest distributed software
integration effort ever, it's somewhat ideology-driven,
completely voluntary and for the most part completely
unfunded. Should provide fodder for many a soft science
thesis in the distant future.
> Java would be so very cool indeed, if it didn't crash my browser after
> a while, with nigh 100% high reliability.
Java applets are fairly useless, and Netscape's JVM
implementation/browser integration is one of the worst
mistakes they made. On the server Java is taking over
the world.
> Speaking of browsers, that
> Netscape piece of offal [...] Mozilla, you're really overdue.
The latest builds are pretty good. In a year Mozilla will
be counted as another free software victory and a boon to
web developers dying for up to date standards compliant
software. Of course Mozilla is much more than a browser
(and I don't mean it's a bloated do everything and poorly
client like Communicator). Apropos to earlier thread
content, XUL <http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/> will facilitate
very rapid UI prototyping.
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