Re: debian

[Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com>]

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:56, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * alex (radsky@ncia.net) [030620 07:35]:
> > Debian is an excellent system once you have it running. It's too bad 
> > that it gets a bad name simply because the trouble people have with 
> > its installation.
> 
> Well, what do you want to do with your system?  Install an OS on it, or
> run an OS on it?
He can't make that choice. He can't decide oh well I don't feel like
installing Debian it's too hard, I'll just run Debian :) He has to
install it first.

> Most reviewers seem to believe that users want a system that installs
> easily.  They run the installer, review it, and call it a review of the
> distribution. 
If a user can't install then there's no point reviewing the rest of the
system.

> Anyone who thinks it's hard to install debian should try installing
> redhat on pa-risc or sparc!  (It's not difficult -- it's impossible!
> (AFAIK))
I don't know about that I only use Debian...

Bijan