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Re: debian

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:45, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> 
> > What about a Box that says:
> > "Do you want me to AutoDetect your hardware?
> > Yes or No"
> 
> I'm not saying that I think autodetection is a bad idea, just that I
> don't particularly need/want it, and I don't imagine the people who
> write the debian installer particularly need/want it either, and that
> that is probably why it hasn't happened. It's that whole itch scratching
> thing that open source people are always talking about :-) RedHat et al
> have that particular itch because they want to make money, debian folks
> are doing it for themselves in most cases

Knoppix does it and is based on Debian.

Everyone deservers Free Software even people who aren't particularly
itchy :)

Bijan
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