Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > paul taylor wrote: > > > It just another distro that is not ready for prime time
I sympathise with your reaction (computers really are a pain in the ass), though I think any assessment of Debian is very much a question of perspective and the resulting expectations. For example, at work I run Solaris, a "Commercial" O/S, and I find it much easier to make things work under Debian. So, approaching Debian from a Unixish perspective, I think it's pretty good. The main problem with Debian Linux is that it is, by association, forced to live up to the marketing hype generated by other distributions and the whole Linux thing in general. I'm not a big believer in this "the computer is always right" ideology espoused by many computer people, but FWIW I think the best way to enjoy Debian is to buy into the hackish Unix philosophy of doing things the "hard" way. For me, the "hard" way usually turns out to be the easy way in the long run. The greatest sin of contemporary O/S's is that they pretend to assume the user is stupid, and subsequently make him actually feel stupid when things fail to work as advertised. The advertising is the problem. -chris
