Re: why so much hate?
Subject: Re: why so much hate?
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:39:08PM -0500
In reply to:John Foster
Quoting John Foster(jfoster@augustmail.com):
> Wayne Topa wrote:
I didn't write that! I answered it but damm well didn't say that!
Wayne
> >
> > Subject: why so much hate?
> > Date: Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:09:40AM -0400
> >
> > In reply to:altag@lycosmail.com
> >
> > Quoting altag@lycosmail.com(altag@lycosmail.com):
> > > hi.
> > > from Altag.
> > > I can't figure out why Dselect package
> > > ,loving debian so strong, is so antiquate and
> > > really unfriendly.
> > > from debian-developers really nothing better?
> --------------------------------------------
> I have been using Linux off and on since 1992. You should have been
> around when there was no dselect or even Debian for that matter, it was
> really a hackers world then. I too disliked dselect when I first started
> using it. Over the years it has shown marked improvement, contrary to
> what many new users think. I have come to realize that the developers
> were/are very wise about what dselect must do and how to perform that
> task best. It MUST be able to function on a minimal system from a
> consol, that may not be properly supported by the initial installation
> when first installed. It MUST perform with the DETECTED available
> hardware, when first installed, i.e it finds the drives and cdroms etc.
> It does this correctly even though YOU do not even know what they are
> called or how to mount them. I provides ALL the instructions to operate
> it properly when it first starts. You DO have to READ them, ALL of them.
> It provides all the necessary features to completely install a working
> Operating System and to correct any screw ups YOU make. If you punch the
> enter key after you already see that you have a problem, it is not THEIR
> fault, it's YOURS. In fact the the only suggestion that I would make is
> that they might put the Exit sequence from dselect to it's menu, on the
> VERY FIRST page. The problem with most useres, newbies , is that they
> are coming from a situation where they were not required to think before
> doing something. That is not the case with ANY Unix or Unix clone. In
> short I think that until the hardware itself becomes selfaware (scary
> thought) we will have to do the best with what works well and think for
> ourselves. This is not a rant at newbies. These are the real facts. I
> still learn something EVERY day, and have problems, mostly of my own
> doing. But my system has not CRASHED in 3 years while running Linux, but
> about every other week when running Windows.
> Best Wishes!
> --
> John Foster
> AdVance-Computing Systems
> jfoster@augustmail.com
> ICQ# 19460173
>
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