Sat, 05 Feb 2005

Being offline sucks

Currently the provider of my phone line and my ISP having an argumentation, why my DSL access doesn't work anymore. *sigh*

In the meantime I discovered the interesting fact, that it is faster for me to go to my university (roughly a 50 minutes trip), than to receive my mails over my old 28k8 analogous modem. *sigh*

Debian related

During the last week I didn't had time for much Debian related stuff. Neither to upload my new tuxracer-extras package, nor to work on my ppracer ITP, nor to finish P&P, nor to take a look on some interesting RFPs. Most work I did, was organizing some events for Debian - well, actually I mostly tried to solve a scheduling conflict I produced. So I just did boring stuff, not worth to blog about it, but I thought you might be interested in the following topic:

Why Debian is loosing users to Gentoo

At the last regulars' table of our Linux User Group, I met a former Debian User, who recently switched to Gentoo. Out of curiosity I asked for his reasons. And he told me about difficulty he had using Debians broken gnupg packages, how complicate is was for him to us ssh in his companies environment, where needed a specific patch, and how cool it all runs on Gentoo.

During the following discussion, I recognized, that he used an unofficial gnupg 1.9.foo.bar package from an unknown source, he could has solved his "compile ssh with a patch"-problem very easy with apt-build, and that he of course never send a wishlist bug to add this special feature. There where some minor points which I already forgot, too. All in all, he was left with a simple "It's cool.".

PS: My personal experience is, that many Gentoo users are switching back again, since Gentoo isn't that fun either.

PPS: Did I mention, that I hate people complaining about things, they didn't cared enough to report?

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