[lug] The original Debian announcement

[David Morris]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> What will make this release better than SLS?  This:
>...
> ---------
>
> So... what do you guys/gals think?  The original goals
> of the project?
>
> A+?  C-?  F?  What's the grade?

Grade compared to their founding goals     : F
Grade in successful naivete of the founders: A+
Grade as a current Linux distribution      : B+

Side note:  I have never tried ANY Linux distro that I would
give better than a B+.  Every single one contains several
fundamental flaws....including my personal favorite, Debian.
I'm not certain, though, that an open source operating
system is even capable of attaining a score closer to
perfection than this because of the "committee" nature which
defines large open source software projects.

--David