-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:36, sda wrote:
> Actually I don't think it's hard at all, remember, many 1st timers > haven't installed anything before. Most consumers don't ever install a > Windoze OS, they buy it pre-installed. I think it's more of an issue of > newbies, not knowing how to install *any* operating system. It is hard, because presume that you know more about your systems than most people do, again dselect is not easy (you can avoid it now, but you couldn't when I started out). > Yep, that's why I recommended another Debian distro, specifically for > newbies. ;) I don't think we're doing anyone a favour by recommending > Mandrake, who knows how long they'll be around? One can only be a for > profit corporation and beg for $ for so long, before investors bail. You know, Debian users need to get over this "commercial distribution" fobia. You are all on the same side. I haven't been reading this list for a couple of months now, and when I signed up again, the first thing I read is another rant about RedHat. It's getting pretty boring. Debian works for me. For other people, Mandrake, or SuSe, or RedHat or Slackware, or Knoopix, or Gentoo might be better. I don't bother them about their choice, but try to be a good Linux user to them. And I try to recommend distribution depending on what they want to do with their system and how comfortable they are with computers. Remember, it's libre not gratis. - -- John L. Fjellstad____________________________________________________ web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAj++r7QACgkQkz0vhQtHHRhqWACeLAwCBhoVHmq88VeW2OtFCo+V M8sAnioOjsK9yb/Sp4zxXH2hSfJvI6zX =v4yI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
