Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you don't need to download EVERYTHING. They probably get the impression that by downloading only the net-install CD or the first CD/DVD they would not be able to benefit from everything Debian has to offer.
Is this just a false impression of mine? I wanted to get some more opinions
before bringing this to debian-www. Maybe they could put some more emphasis on
this (great) feature of Debian. I can even imagine newcomers getting scared of
the huge number of .iso (14 for i386) to download on the first install and
possibly every upgrade (another feature maybe not enough advertised).
Andrei
I agree, although a little reading on the website did fix my initial
impression. I actually did not own a cd burner when I first wanted to
try Debian so I felt my only avenue was to order a full set of the
CD's. If I had left it at that, I never would have gotten setup at all
on Debian since the CD's never arrived (although my credit card was
charged) and emails to the customer service for that vendor were never
returned or acknowledged. I ended up buying a cd burner purely to get
Debian up and running (obviously I use it all the time now). Since then
I've deployed 6 debian servers into production supporting a small isp
and running variuus services including opennms, mysql, freeradius, dns,
apache, etc. and I've had absolutely no problems and I'm a big
proponent of Debian whenever colleagues ask about which distro they
should try.
Craig Russell
AirDigitalNetwork.com
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