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Re: I forgot



Grzegorz Stelmaszek <greg@tenet.pl> writes:

> On 28 Jun 1999, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  Ok, so you're installing Debian on a bunch of computers in a student
> >  computer lab.
> ...
> (nice story ;-)
> ...
> >  There perhaps ought to be provision for those workstations mounting
> >  most softare via NFS or AFS... ala FHS.  They need only the very
> >  basics; enough on them to offload processing from the swerver.
> 
> Yeah, all is ok BUT, why do you think RedHat is much more popular than
> Debian ? Why people call Debian as it is only for profesionalists ????
> Answer is one: cause RedHat is MUCH MORE EASIER to configure. It is very
> important that user could sit down, answer five questions and be happy. It
> is much better than editing one line in /etc/init.d/network, cause, from
> where user (newbie administrator ?) may know where to find file
> resposible for the network ???

Thats where my proposal comes in real handy. It states that all
questions must have a reasonable default and have a level. If the
users experience level is lower than the questions, he wont get asked
and the default is taken. Of cause he can still view the settings or
change his level later, if he wishes.

...

MfG,
	Goswin


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