Re: Debian review...
I agree with the fact that debian is not hard to install at all... Maybe
before it was... I just downloaded it and installed it a couple of days
ago and was very impressed, I'm very happy with it and that's why I
thought it deserves a better review...
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2001, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> > Hello there! I don't want to start any controversy here or anything like
> > that.... But I was reading the newbiezided help files at
> > http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html
> > and found out that in the reviews they make about several distros, they
> > don't have a very good one for debian, not necesarily becouse the guy
> > making the review doesn't like debian very much, but becouse he doesn't
> > know it... He in fact is requesting that someone that uses debian more
> > contributes with a better review... I'm no way close to make a good non
> > biased review about debian (which i just started using as itself and love)
> > but since I like it so much and think that is the best distro I thought
> > that maybe an expert here would like to make such review available again
> > at http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html...
> >
> > Thanks to all!
> >
>
> This is probably because there is a widespread belief (probably dating
> from the time when you *had* to use dselect) that Debian is very
> difficult to install and therefore unsuitable for newbies. I actually
> don't think that Debian is necessarily any more difficult for newcomers
> than other versions of Linux but it does have that reputation.
>
> I know that considerable effort has gone into writing documentation for
> Debian recently and this is to be applauded. There is however room for
> more. I was considerably impressed by the online FreeBSD manual. If I
> were starting from scratch I'd be quite tempted to try FreeBSD, just
> because the manual is so clear and comprehensive.
>
> Anthony
>
>
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