Re: Where is Debian going?
Hi,
This is what bothers me about most linux distros, especially RH, Mandrake etc.
Their installers have this fancy gui installer, which make it really quite
easy. X is easy to install, setting up the nics, etc etc.
For a linux newbie this is great, they can have their first linux system
up and running in no time.
However, I prefer the Debian installer which is less fancy.
I find that I get more of a feel for what's happening to the system.
When I first learned about linux, the gui's didn't actually tell me which
files were being edited when your in X. There were fancy gui's apps to do stuff,
and they worked, but if I ever had to administer a linux box without X, I was
hooped. I wouldn't even know where to start.
Anyway, I'm just trying to say that (in my case)Debian forced me to learn linux
and I thank them for it. :)
Cheers,
Mike
Quoting Sven Heinicke <sven@research.nj.nec.com>:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 23:38, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:01:41PM -0400, Phil wrote:
> > > As a nubie (into GNU-Linux for around 6 months) I think the Job Debian
> and
> > > the FSF is doing is laudble and heroic. Debian in general is a roll
> your
> > > own flavor of GNU-Linux not for the faint of heart.
> >
> > I'm going to have to disagree. When I was a freshman in high school, I
> > managed to install Debian on a box below the minimum requirements, and I
> > know far more about computers now than I did then. I recommend Debian
> > or Desktop/LX to newbies depending on whether or not they have a clue,
> > respectively.
> >
>
> Debian is the way for somebody with computer savvy. Most people who
> reads docs could do good, but most people don't like reading. I know a
> debian user who had to use Mandrake here at work and he was surprised
> when the sound card was already configured and we didn't even have to
> tell it which drivers to use. Even though, a few weeks later he was
> installing Debian on that system, thankfully.
>
> Sven
>
>
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