Re: Just my opinion
I started with Debian after one year of windows 95 experience. It took
some patience and persistence but I've learned a lot. Difficulties are
not barriers to learning they are learning. Which distro a person
starts with really is up to what the person wishes to do with it. I
took some time picking the disto that I felt was right for me. My
impression after reading various information on the net was RedHat was
easy to install and user friendly, Slackware was the most difficult to
deal with and Debian was somewhere in the middle. I chose Debian
because I wanted a challenge (but not too much) and it wasn't a
commercial distro. After a few weeks with Debian I thought maybe RedHat
would have been a better choice for myself. I did not anticipate how
hard it would be switching from Windows. With encouragement from people
on this list and a change in my attitude from 'being in a huge hurry' to
'I want to learn I can always use Windows if I have to' I found a very
pleasurable experience in using Debian. Have fun with whatever disto
you choose:)
Good Luck,
kent
Paulo J Matos aka PDestroy wrote:
>
> 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
> >>
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