Hi,
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, me wrote:
> 3) If the reviewer had been a newbie, the complaints might have
> been forgivable. Deb is not (yet) for newbies. It's getting there,
> though.
If the newbie is a fiddler, he or she can manage with a little help from
(Debian) friends. When I started installing Debian on my Atari TT, I had
never seen another Linux distri before, I just knew a handful of Unix
commands from my account at the University mainframes. It is necessary
to have some people around to help and a certain stubborness to go
through and things will work out.
> disaster. 8) I switched *to* Debian because it was easy to install online.
I tried Debian because there were no alternative distris for
m68k-machines and was successful because the m68k-people were quite
patient with me. So finally, when I got my second computer, this time
not m68k, I changed from the preinstalled RedHat back to Debian, because
I like it better.
Whether Debian is suitable to a newbie, is pretty much dependend in the
newbie and (I guess) in the experiences he or she makes when contacting
the Debian lists.
Regards,
Kerstin
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