Re: Just my opinion
Yeah, good idea Dan. I think that's what I'll do to... If you think RedHat
is better for a begginner, that's what I'll do... Cya people!!!
Regards,
At 04:08 06-07-1999 +0000, Dan wrote:
>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documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the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
>>
>>debiandoug@juno.com
>>http://members.tripod.com/debiandoug/
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