On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:53:31AM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > Dude, I know that for the average "hacker" or coder or whatnot, ya, First of all, you and your MUA appear to be ignoring: Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. > that's fine; it's what I did. ~,^ But there are lots of *non* > technical users of Debian, too... and I, for one, setup boxes for such > users with testing since stable is too damn old and "unfeatureful" (not > a word, oh well) for the average dumb user (they need/want latest > KDE/GNOME, better XFree86, etc.). If these people have to fire up a > text editor to do *anything*, they're going to start asking for Windows > again. Picky bastards. ~,^ So have them use potato. Or help them admin their boxes. > Just something you might wanna keep in mind. I don't expect testing to > be bug free, but I suppose there should be some effort to fix bugs that > will screw up users without technical skill. "Some effort". Gosh, I hadn't realized I wasn't expending any effort on XFree86. Maybe I should stop and teach your ignorant ass the difference. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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