Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

[Ken Sims <ken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martin -

>If you want to avoid the possibility of your chosen distro being subject
>to a less than favourable buy-out, try Debian[1]. It's produced &
>maintained entirely by volunteers - no commercial pressure and arguably
>the best packaging system of the lot.
>
>Regards, Martin
>[1] http://www.debian.org

Thanks for the info.  Even though David posted a link indicating that AOL
is NOT buying Red Hat, I will certainly gave Debian a good look.  A
volunteer organization is much less likely to try to force the installation
of a lot of extra gooey stuff.  Give me a lean, mean, computin' machine!

Ken
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