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Re: Release goal



On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> "Funnily enough, the only distributions I tend to refuse to touch are 
> the 'technical' ones, so I've never run Debian, because as far as I'm 
> concerned, the whole and only point of a distribution is to make it easy 
> to install (so that I can then get to the part I care about, namely the 
> kernel), so Debian or one of the 'compile everything by hand' ones 
> simply weren't interesting to me." -- Linus Torvalds at 
> http://www.apcmag.com/node/7012

> So what about the following release goal: "Installing and using the 
> distribution should be so easy that even Linus Torvalds can use it". ;)

It already is; I don't think "overcoming Linus Torvalds' irrational biases"
is a well-formed release goal.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/



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