On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:42 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 8/1/07, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Look, for a person who has known the UNIX / Linux environment in his > > entire life, Debian is a nightmare. I'm not talking usagewise but I'm > > talking with reference to installation and maintenance. > > I think you meant to say "For a person who _hasn't_ know > Unix/Linux..." because otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Yes, you're right, it was a typo :( > Your point would have made sense if you would have just stuck to > initial installation. Installation is lengthier than other systems, > but it is definitely not more difficult. It doesn't really ask for > your monitor sync and refresh rates anymore (it did for my first time, > with woody) so except for the fact that the installaer doesn't look > pretty enough, none of it is _difficult_ per say. Umm...yes I was talking not only about the initial installation but also all the terminologies that Linux uses. They are completely different from the Windoze world. Plus the post installation maintenance is sometimes difficult. I'll pitch a very common problem. Sometimes it does happen that Ubuntu detects Windows partition but for some unknown reason it doesn't mount it. Now the solution is simple, for us. Edit /etc/fstab and make the right entries. But if you look at it from a newbie perspective, he'll need to know: 1. How to login as root 2. Know UNIX naming convention of block devices 3. Know the format of entries in /etc/fstab 4. How to make mount points ( i.e. creating directories ) 5. How to set permissions This is a real world example. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
