>>>>> "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
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