On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 04:21, chanka perera wrote: > Hi, > > There are 100's of reply the (Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?) but > following are my personal view of Debian, Distributions like RedHat, > SuSE, Mandrake are playing well in the desktop and servers as well I > also used these three OS's but finally I settled down with Debian > because > > The truth is out there I mean the power of Freedom and even Debian > doesn't hide anything from users I really appreciate it. > > We can't stop people going to M$ Gentoo BSD Solaris or what ever but > what we can do is to increased the power of Debian by fixing the bugs, > writing docs and give help to newbie's because it takes little time to > feel the difference of all Linux specially Debian we don't have any > thing to show to users as M$ doing but the reality (true power is inside > which > M$ or other OS Doesn't have) > > When it comes to installation it have to improve but do we want have a > GUI installation process? The console base is much butter than the GUI.. > I think rather than improve on the sweet part the GUI, it's better to > improve the functionality of the OS the error handling and brings it to > the concepts on AI ( which gives where the error is and what to do > next..[expert system kind of thing]) > > While doing the above we can add utilities to KDE and Gnome I think with > in next 1-2 years KDE and Gnome will be very much effected to M$ 90% of > desktop users. On your note with the GUI install there is a subproject called debian-desktop that is working on such improvents as well as other desktop stuff...IE utilitys. Here is the link. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ Check this out...that is one step to make Debian better. -- Sean Harshbarger
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