New debian-mentors Public .deb Repository Available

JohnKFisher writes "For anyone who has ever put together a .deb package, but didn't want to bother with the hassle of setting up their own repository, or trying to get your package added to the official one, the Public Package Repository is up and running. I wonder if this means someone can finally add a version of KDE not dating from late in the Carter administration."

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Re:Do all Deb/Gentoo users have such bad attitudes

[gl4ss]

**Are there real technical issues that make RedHat the piece of shit that you all claim it is? Or is it because Gentoo and Debian just happen to attract a lot of these vocal assholes?**

i'm going to bite into this semi-troll(it would have more non-troll attitude if it wasn't posted anon.)

the short reason: rpm sucks.

the longer reason: rpm sucks bad, also most debian users are former red hat users who have gotten at some point annoyed how it works, and being longer time linux users have probably had to walk some redhat users through something that is easy and fast to do in debian if you know what you're doing. in users perspective they are the same, but so is windows. you click programs, they open, you type. but from admin point of view they are different, the problem is that most users have to be administrators too and debian is where admins get easy. being (maybe) former redhat users(perhaps dating with redhat several years backwards) they probably have gotten at some point very frustrated with the rpm system (while you could argue that it's fine when it works, the counter argument is that theres way too many things it doesn't do well). then theres of course flameboys, which gentoo seems to have attracted a fair bit (being the cool and hip 'performance' distro of the day), which shout things they read in a faq without understanding them (babbling how their application xyz is faster because it got compiled with zxy flags). it's all linux but the reason i try to push debian is ease of use in the long run (not the ease of first bootup and getting to x, though, with knoppix that's certainly the fastest way). i'm sure redhat has it's uses but i'm too tainted by the rpm hell i saw when i had my time using it to go back to it after trying alternative package management systems which prove that such an one-line install system _can_ work reliably.