Seriously, Mike, bleeding edge hardware and software will be either more expensive or more difficult to install. I choose the slightly more difficult route to getting work done, because high market profile tools (like Bill's favorites) are too expensive and lacking in security for corporations to support. As for games on a personal system, on the other hand...
Art, dimly reminiscing of having used his birdbrain and beak to peck the enter key repeatedly for a 1.0 install on older hardware... On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 04:57:28PM +0930, Mike Carter wrote: > How long before debian becomes easier to install. I played with it for a > year. > Successful in many aspects but eventually I quit as I don't have enough > programming knowledge to get it to run as well as I want it too. I have an > intel > i740 agp video card so I had to update to the driver.(the rest of the > computer > consists of an abit 440bx board 128meg sdram essolo sound card celeron 300 > chip which has always run at 450 8.4 gig for windows and a 6.4 for linux > +diamond 36x cdrom). No problems but then to get this and that to work I had > to > change my x system from whatever was in deb 2.1 to whatever was in potato and > so on. I tried to use gnome but it kept changing to often add one bit and it > all > broke. So I used kde. Eventually when it broke with an x upgrade or glib2 > whatever upgrade I quit. My sound card was the same. I had to fuck around > for > ages to get it to run. This I know is a problem for everyone moving over > from > windows to linux if not a programmer but it just got too hard for too long. > So > eventually though I didn't want too I installed Redhat 6.0. When I can get > hold of > a copy I will probably go to Mandrake 6.1. I wanted and still want to be a > Debian > user but the installation will have to get easier and I need the installation > program > lilo to see both drives and allow me to boot either easily. -I bought the 6.4 > drive for > linux. I probably appear like an absolute lame. So be it but I don't think > I am. As > soon as I installed debian I compiled a 2.1 kernel then a 2.2 etcetra. Could > you > make the rest of the programming team (the world if you like) aware of my > concern that some of us newbies try real hard with debian before giving it > away > because it is just too hard. However I am still on the debian user mailing > list, still > hoping it will get easier and I can go back to debian. BTW the guys and gals > in > the debian team are overall doing a great job and I hope they don't quit. > When > installation gets easier I 'll be back. BTW your newsletter remains great. > Hopefully you will use this note to spur the team on. > cheers, > Mike > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
