Re: debian installation
On 22 Aug 1999, Nathan Duehr wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Justin Wells wrote:
>
> > I think that Debian has a much better technology, but the average Debian
> > user right now gets to stare at all the whirling gears in the install,
> > and sometimes tinker with them, to get things going. The average RedHat
> > user watches a status bar crawl across their screen. Or yet another
> > metaphor: Debian has built a solid structure, but not yet done all
> > the drywalling, or hung the front door in its frame.
>
> Perhaps the average Debian user WANTS to see what's going on and perhaps
> tinker with it. I know I do. I grew up with computers where I could see
> EXACTLY what they were doing, and most of my time was spent at the
> so-called "Command Line Interface". As Windows and other graphical
> systems became more and more popular, I found that they did some nice
> things and allowed applications that needed to display lots of graphics a
> better way to do so, but I started longing for the feedback given by the
> programs written in a command-line era, very quickly.
>
> So with that in mind, some comments on your comments... (:
> No flames.
>
[further comments cut]
This expresses very well what it is that attracted me to Debian in the
first place. I came to it via Slackware and then RedHat. As a complete
newbie I could never manage to install any new packages on Slackware;
RedHat was a lot better but too often I found that rpm packages were broken
or turned out to demand libraries etc. that I didn't have and didn't know
where to look for. Once I got used to the Debian way of doing things, I
liked it better.
I suppose I should add that I came to Linux itself from DOS, not Windows,
so I suppose I was already accustomed to the idea of a CLI. I'd been using
4DOS for years and, as I know realize, this has a lot of Unix features
built into it, so Linux wasn't as much of a culture shock as it might have
been.
Anthony
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