From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-06-12T19:29:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Serious danger of being impressed On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:47:32PM +0900, Dick Davies wrote: > On 12/06/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 04:27:01PM +0900, Dick Davies wrote: > >> Ok, thanks for the advert. Debian has its own problems, but this isn't > >> the place to discuss them. > >> > >> On 11/06/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > >> > >> >Ubuntu is a Debian *fork*. > > > >Uhh . . . what? I said it was a fork. I didn't say it was crap. I'm > >not sure where you're coming from with the hostile tone. > > I wasn't trying to be hostile, but that was your second post about Ubuntu > and > Debian and the thread wasn't about either. > > >So . . . why does your statement read as though you thought I said > >"Ubuntu is a *crappy Debian fork*!"? > > That would be your first post, saying : > > "Ubuntu is far more suited to the average MS Windows transplant, I suppose" At the time I typed that sentence, I meant that it provided a more familiar face for the recent transplant, increasing comfort for people not steeped in Linux wisdom. One might say that my statement only implied that Ubuntu is more "user friendly" to recent MS Windows converts than vanilla Debian. Isn't "user friendly" supposed to be a good thing, all else being equal? -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Dr. Ron Paul: "Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons."