On Wednesday 27 February 2008 08:44:57 pm Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > ... > > > Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even > > though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only > > using firefox to check email, hardly the grandest most eye opening > > event). > > Debian is not aimed at the same audiences as those distros. If it were, > then there'd be no need for those other distros. I believe it is, by intention. If it wasn't, I seriously doubt Debian would have anywhere near the number of packages, particularly desktop-related packages. Debian seems to be the "run anywhere, do anything" distro. And you're right, there's not really much point in other distros existing at this point. > > Debian could use an image revamp, last night i was messing with a > > debian install disk trying to get driver information for a NIC in my > > solaris machine, and honestly even with the (non-default) GUI, it's > > hardly impressive. > > There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI > installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large > project. Here's a link to it: > > http://ubuntu.com. > > (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it's been > taken over by Dell.) I'm not sure pointing people towards a commercial redistributor of the same is a good or particularly healthy thing. Granted, many DD's are also UDs, but what does Canonical or Dell do for Debian beyond lip-service, anyway? > If you want a friendly GUI and a nifty and easy install, go for another > distro. There's a reason there's so many distros out there and it's > too much to ask for one distro to try to hit more than one or two > focused markets. Like Debian's "Just hit Enter a dozen times" method could possibly get any easier. Even Windows is an order of magnitude more difficult to install. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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