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Re: bad press at www.linuxworld.com



On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:26:58AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:

> 
> On 14-Sep-00, 02:58 (CDT), Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: 
> > 
> > If you ignore all of his nasty mudslinging, his gripes are the
> > following:
> > 
> > The boot-floppies:
> > - Identify themselves as the debian rescue floppy which is certianly
> >   confusing if you don't read documentation.
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Imagine my sympathy. This is someone passing himself off as a reviewer,
> but he can't be bothered to read the docs?
> 
> Now, there are definitely places where the install could be improved,
> (this is news?), but I'm really tempted to ignore people who can't be
> bothered to read the owners manual. This is an operating system, not a
> toaster.

That reminds me a issue... Is there a vendor selling debian potato
including a printed manual about the instalation and upgrade documents?

Some people want a book... 

One thing not so clear is the location of rescue disks and the documents for
a person new to debian.


-- 

Carlos Barros.
BTW: Im not on debian-boot@l.d.o



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