Re: Happy Birthday

["Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>]

>   From: imurdock@shell.portal.com (Ian A Murdock)
>   Subject: New release under development; suggestions requested
>   Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 13:05:37 GMT

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>   What will make this release better than SLS?  This:

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>           3) Debian will contain a installation procedure that doesn't need to
>                   be babysat; simply install the basedisk, copy the distribution
>                   disks to the harddrive, answer some question about what
>                   packages you want or don't want installed, and let the machine
>                   install the release while you do more interesting things.


Fascinating: ten years on and we still haven't achieved goal #3.

I've only been using Debian for about 4 years; maybe some of the
old-timers know: has this *ever* been true of Debian install?

-S