Re: thinking about installing Debian
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:02:43PM -0600, Lakin Wecker wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:46, Luis Sanjuan wrote:
> > > I didn't have much luck with the beta 4 installer. Specifically the
> > > yaboot installer failed miserably and was a pain in the ass to fix. The
> > > May 24th 2004 images for Sid worked wonderfully for me in this
> > > respect. I would recommend trying the daily built images or at least
> > > contacting the debian boot mailing list.
> > >
> >
> > Users should always report their installation problems. Users feedback
> > is a neccesary step in the development process. Developers are not
> > omniscient, of course. I sent a bug against yaboot-installer and
> > probably without it you haven't got success with that daily built
> > image.
> >
> Ummm. Ok.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are implying by this. By the time
> tested the beta installer, the bug had been fixed in the daily images.
> I found this out and did not bother reporting a bug which had already
> been fixed.
Of course, I want only to emphasize the relevance of user feedback
_in general_. This is also a good reason to choose Debian: users can
help decisively to improve the distribution. Users and developers
are together in the same collaborative process.
Greetings :)
Luis Sanjuan
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