On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM: > >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: >> >> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. >> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. >> >> I'd rather learn to fish. > > This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking > for my first Linux distro. I told a friend I wanted a server distro that > wasn't going to spoon feed me, but make me learn something about Linux. > > Casey, a seasoned Debian sysadmin, recommended I download the Debian net > install floppies and do my first install from the mirrors, only a compact > base install, and to install everything else I needed by hand with apt. > That was Potato with a 2.2 kernel. > > I only use Linux for non-GUI servers. I don't use desktop Linux. All my > admin'ing requires knuckle busting. ;) And I like it that way. >
But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about their OS, correct? They want the computer to be as transparent as possible in their workflow. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/w2m880dece01004101412k40049bb2q9d8458321d74f...@mail.gmail.com
