[ale] linus doesn't like Debian?

[hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I was reading this article on Linus Torvalds:
> http://apcmag.com/7017/linus_torvalds_talks_future_of_linux_page_3
> and he says this:
> So right now I happen to run Fedora on my machines, which largely came about 
> from me running on POWER for a few years, and Fedora supported it pretty well 
> (and since I actually don't care that deeply about the distribution, I tend 
> to prefer running the same thing on everything, just to keep any distro 
> issues away).
> 
> Before Fedora had PowerPC support, I ran YDL for a while, and before that I 
> had SuSE. Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch 
> are the "technical" ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm 
> concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy to 
> install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the kernel), 
> so Debian or one of the "compile everything by hand" ones simply weren't 
> interesting to me. 
> ------------------------------------------------
> Compile everything by hand??? other than the .deb vs rpm, I don't see that 
> much difference between Ubuntu & SUSE.. or is it me..
> 
No comprende.