Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:39:07PM -0200, loos wrote:
> Em Dom, 2005-11-13 ?s 17:19 -0500, Carl Fink escreveu:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:16:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > > Carl Fink wrote:
> >
> > > >Why use a distro if you're going to have to manually install things anyway?
> > > >
> > > That might make sense if we were just installing an OS but everyone
> > > certainly has different needs in applications.
> >
> > That's why I said "distro" (short for "distribution") and not "operating
> > system".
> >
> > A selling point[1] of Debian has been how many applications are available
> > for it. That stops working when the most-desired applications aren't
> > included.
> >
> >
> They are included in the unstable distribution (whose programs are
> stable).
Absolutely true and completely irrelevant to my point.
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
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