Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian
> > its uniqueness in the first place.  Maybe I'm a snob on the
> > sysadmin/programmer end of things, but if someone has a reason to
> > need Debian instead of Ubuntu, if they find the current install
> > without a fancy GUI tough to use, then I seriously doubt they are
> > advanced enough to be using Debian.  In that case, they can try
> > many other distros.
>
> You do know Debian has a graphical installer, it's just not activated
> by default (you have to type 'instalgui').

I've heard that, but haven't bothered to check it out.

Hal