Re: Please, help Linus install Debian!
Other question is: what distribution is he using?
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Am Dienstag, 24. Juli 2007 19:34 schrieb Gilles Pelletier:
> "So the only major distribution I’ve never used has actually been
> Debian, exactly because that has traditionally been harder to
> install. Which sounds kind of strange, since Debian is also
> considered to be the “hard-core technical” distribution, but that’s
> literally exactly what I personally do not want in a distro. I’ll
> take the nice ones with simple installers etc, because to me, that’s
> the whole and only point of using a distribution in the first place."
>
> <http://www.oneopensource.it/interview-linus-torvalds/>
>
> So, it seems Linus has the same problem as me(1): I'm sure he could
> install Debian, but he just doesn't want to get through the hassle.
> As he explains, the idea behind a distro is easing things out.
>
> (1) See:
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-knoppix/2007/07/msg00000.html>
> from: "I treid Etch, recently, and it was too many headaches."
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>
> Therefore, there's definitely some place for a (new) Knoppix better
> than (previous) Knoppix. Maybe Linus would like it! (I'm sure he
> watches multimedia too! :)
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