On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote:
> > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It > > won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation > > is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation > > procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian streetlight. Whatever the > > advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life has the hundreds > > of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. > > Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert I could say this about some other OSes that you have to pay money for. :-) This guy is lucky he didn't try something really hard like Solaris. If anything, Debian makes it too easy. :-) I'd like to see a description somewhere of what is done when installing various packages. The printing subsystem is a good example. How about a description of the required packages and what is setup? What was done to /etc/printcap, how syslog was setup, lpd, etc. Some of this is in the How-To docs, but it would be nice to see it from the point-of-view of the people who put together the Debian packages.
