Re: debian

[Derek Chew En-Hock <sdchew@ieee.org>]

Hello alex,

I have been using Debian for almost 3 months now and I have to admit I
was a little taken back by the Debian Installer in the beginning...
but man, I love it now... its so simple yet powerful and it lets me
decide on the actual flow of the installation... I still remember once
I partition the hard disk in one manner and could immediately change
the partition layout immediately even though I already move ahead a
few steps... very flexible and excellent if you know what you are
doing...

Friday, June 20, 2003, 9:10:13 PM, you wrote:
a> I've lost track of hows many times I've "installed' Debian because
a> of making wrong decisions during the installation.

a> My observation is that the installation tries to do too much.  It
a> tries to consider all possible choices that could be made, many of
a> which some users don't need or even understand but don't know what 
a> to do about them. At least, that's in my case.

a> If there was a separate alternate installation process where only 
a> the essentials are taken care of, leaving the 'special' applications
a> to be added after the basic Debian is running, I'm sure you'd find
a> fewer complaints about Debian.

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Best regards,
 Derek                            mailto:sdchew@ieee.org