Hi, Daniel! On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux > > > > installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and given > > > > up after a weekend or two, going back to a Microsoft system. > > > > Those few who have managed have, like me, endured weeks of > > > > drudgery. Only on internet blogs do I read "Wow!" reports about > > > > how it works perfectly an hour and a half after inserting the > > > > installation DVD.
> > > Well, my first Debian installation was from a pile of floppies, > > > so I'm not going to be able to comment intelligently on how hard > > > or easy today's process is. > > :-) That appears somewhat evasive. > Only in the sense that I don't want to get into a pointless > argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion about the totally subjective question of whether > installing Debian is "hard" for two different people with different > skills and requirements (namely you and me), especially when I don't > work on the installation system and I can't fix any of your problems > for you. OK, fair enough! > Moreover, it's been ten years since I installed Debian for the first > time and I don't trust my memory to tell me precisely what the > conditions were at the time or how long it took me. A few things I do > remember having trouble with, like getting basic access to email (which > required configuring an MTA), getting X working, and getting a printer > hooked up, are so easy nowadays that it's barely worth remarking on > them. These all caused me moderate or severe pain with sarge in 2006. Maybe it's only the first debian installation anybody does which is so hard. I hope so! Anyhow, it seems time to finish this thread, now. Thanks for all the comments. > Daniel -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
