Re: Why Debian
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:40:18PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> The real "problem" is that the number of people who install
> any operating system from scratch at any time is very small:
> - probably less than 1%
As in LFS? (I think I know what you mean, i.e from "disk"? )
> - people have been known to throuw
> away Windows machines because of software failures which would
> have been solved y a reinstall.
Still got a laptop going strong¹ with Debian installed, whereas Windoze
died circa 3yrs ago. I believe there were no Windoze installation disks
with it at the time. *cough* *cough*
¹ You have to ctrl-alt-f1, then alt-f7 to "kick" the graphics card into
displaying in X, but otherwise ... :)
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
oppressing." --- Malcolm X
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