-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > But the first week I spent staring at a bash prompt was different. I > might have enjoyed it because I'm a geek, but I'm sure some people > get fed up at some point.
And Debian is not for those people, then. And to a lesser extent, computers in general. This is a major pet peeve of mine, and one that only got aggrivated working tech support: Computers are complex machines designed to do complex tasks. Thus, there's a learning curve. The sharpness of this curve is inversely proportional to the usefulness of the software. Useful or droolproof: Pick *one*. > Hardware detection on one architecture shouldn't hurt another > architecture. There are many autodetection tools that are already in > Debian. So install those and don't futz around during the install doing it by hand. > They could use knoppix also (sadly Knoppix includes the non-free > adobe pdf reader...). Write to Klaus and ask him to exclude it. Or master your own. There's a howto on Knoppix's site. > > What is the reason that you don't underestand that Debian is free > > software project, so if you are unhappy with something, you can get > > invlved and help it ? > Not everyone is a computer programmer. Hire one, then. http://debian.org/consultants/ > I've installed Debian GNU/Hurd. It's really not that difficult. Unless you have a mouse. Or want to run X. 8:o) Hurd is a work in progress by anybody's terms. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+9GGPJ5vLSqVpK2kRAmczAJ40fXA+4uO+28mWPhCeAAwlEFfm1gCfVjS8 1ANfuUyKJjuStas73qs8ayI= =z3DB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
