>>>>> "David" == David Nusinow <krmt1984@ucla.edu> writes: David> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 12:40 am, Daniel Stone wrote: >> >> I mean, bloody hell, if they don't know how to do init=/bin/sh, >> why are the running Debian, especially sid?? David> I think that's rather harsh. David> [...] but ignorance of one of the billions of myriad David> features of Debian does not invalidate someone's ability to David> run the system, especially when it's something as stable as David> the login breaks mysteriously. I can't say what exactly Daniel had in mind when he wrote what he wrote... but I see here the old conflict between two major camps in the Debian (development) community: + One camp wants big market share and wants to make Debian easy to use as to maximize the amount of users ("market share"). (They will generally disavow any plans/thoughts of dumbing down Debian, and I tend to believe them ;-) + The other camp wants Debian to stay geared for the people it currently seems to be geared for: experienced (Linux/Unix) developers/users. (I'm pretty much in that camp, and I think a smaller market share of clueful people is less hassle and more satisfying than a fat market share of "Drucker funzt nicht" dummies). I remember someone call Debian the Linux distro you use after graduating from Linux highschool. Or something like that. Obviously, I like that turn of phrase. ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard (juergen.erhard@gmx.net, jae@users.sourceforge.net) My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard Give a man fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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