Ueli Meier wrote: >>On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:17:17PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >>I use Debian, but I'm a professional system administrator. I (and >>apparently the Debian leaders) see value in Ubuntu, Progeny, and the rest as >>alternatives for people who DON'T want to spend years educating themselves >>before using their computers. I've read that one of the original goals of >>the Debian project was to be the core of other, more specialized distros. > > > Do you recommend Debian to someone who has little experiecce with linux?
I personally wouldn't. I'd ssy start small and work your way up. :-) Stick with something Debian based though (there are quite a few of them, several are rather obscure) . APT is unbeatable and in the case of newbies, Synaptic is the best GUI for package management out there. -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved
