Re: Where is Debian going?
Yea Mike, that is what I'm on about. I want to know the inner
workings. But most people don't.
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 11:35, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> 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>:
>
> >
> > 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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