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Re: Just my opinion

First of all, debian is mostly for a hacker or at least someone who has used another linux before. I started with Slackware and it seemed excellent. It had great documentation and everything. For some reason, though, some person marked it as the lowest out of the top 5 distro's (this was a few months ago). I decided to try debian as a result to Rob Malda's phanatic'ing about it and because it seemed like a well organized distro since it was mostly public rather than private like most of the other distro's were. Therefore I figured a lot of hackers used it. While I didn't read the documentation on how to install it all that much, I pretty much winged it and at first I thought it kinda sucked cuz the dselect program seemed ridiculous, but then after using it I started liking it. It now runs on my server at nightsifting.dhs.org. The point is that you should start out on something like Redhat if you aren't close to being a hacker (and complaining definately takes away any possibility of even resembeling a hacker). So I'd stop complaining, go buy a nice thick book on Redhat Linux, read it carefully, install it, then come back and we'll see if the attitude has changed. 



From: Doug Dine <debiandoug@juno.com>
To: maxalbert@juno.com, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Just my opinion
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:11 MST


My printer works fine. My modem works fine. The documentation has always
been right on and the installation is a breeze.



On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 17:11:51 EDT maxalbert@juno.com writes:

>FTI--  After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I
>have come to this conclusion:  Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS!
>It won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the
>documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the
>installation procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian
>streetlight. Whatever the advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one
>with a life has the hundreds of hours obviously required to make this
>clunker run.
>       Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert


Doug Dine

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