Re: Dselect docs for beginners
> Bruce asked me to come up with something to help those new to dselect
> when they come to install 1.2 .
>
> > > Are you serious? You want _me_ to document dselect?
>
> > Not being an expert might be an asset. The users have my installation
> > manual to get them up to the login prompt, and then nothing. Something
> > _short_ to get them started with dselect would be nice. An explanation
As someone who is new (compared to most) to unix and Linux, I think a
quick blurb to take someone past the login prompt is a great idea.
Maybe the doc mentioned above will end up on a mirror?, so I can
point all the newbies I run into, to it? I alway suggest Debian now.
When I was looking into which distribution to install, many people pointed
me to Slack, or Redhat, citing ease of installation. And ya, I
guess, both were pretty easy to install, but so was Debian. In
fact, with regards to getting things operational, Debian, was much
easier. :-)
It would have been nice, to have seen, "type dselect" to decide
which packages you'd like to install, since I hadn't ever heard of
dselect. I just assumed that debian had a counterpart to Slacks
"setup", and went out and found it, and more, in dselect.
What made me come to Debian, and stay? The development team. As
soon as I was aware of what was going on behind the distributions, I
switched, joined these email groups and couldn't be happier.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, for the opportunity to learn from your
experiences.
Rich M
qnc496@durhamnews.net
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