Package Management Quotes

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.

Linux has more than satisfied any small initial expectations I had. It's simply incredible how successful Linux has been, and how good a time I've had developing it and leading the project. It does take a lot of my time, but it's time I really enjoy spending, and Linux has continued to be challenging both technically and from a managing standpoint.

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.