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From: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Ubuntu, The Pussy Distro, Is Going Rust
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:56:48 +0000
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
> On 3/23/25 6:07 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>>    NOW, seems Deb hired too many Canonical rejects and
>>>    IT now looks more like Ubuntu than it's original
>>>    purist/root distros. Dreadful.
>> Debian (sic!) doesn't hire. And most of the Canonical people who are
>> also DD still work there.
>
>   Then ... WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED ???
>
>   The old Deb way not only WORKED WELL but was
>   very WELL DOCUMENTED.
>
>   Put network stuff in /etc/network/interfaces ...
>   covered everything. The new files/formats don't
>   add ANYTHING useful, same old info - just much
>   harder to get at/tweak.

/etc/network/interfaces still works in Debian, so I’m not sure what the
complaint is here.

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