Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
i think i missed the storm. anyway, i read that article about Debian not being user-friendly but who says user-friendliness is Debian's topmost priority? Randy should have read Debian's social contract first. if anyone wants a friendly Debian distro they should try Storm Linux. my 2cents. - Original Message - From: Peter Hugosson-Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is list for debian users. Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (not to mention redhat and others) would all be looking for new jobs by now. FWIW, I've ordered the Debian 2.2 set of 6 CDs from http://www.cheeplinux.com and have arranged a wife-free week in November for my next attempt. Right now, I am in the preparatory stage of collecting as many hints, and as much encouragement as possible. You might think I should be looking at redhat, but that's just your opinion. Most people on this list seem to think that Debian is worth perservering with. The purpose of my post was to thank Randy for pointing me at a good article, and to make a serious suggestion about a t-shirt design. We geeks like cool t-shirts, and the fact that the Debian chicken is such a long-lived animal suggests to me that he deserves to be immortalized for posterity. If I could draw, I wouldn't be asking for help here. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller Bill Gates: The man who gave cream pies a good name.
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: George Bonser wrote: I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool! Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. I suppose that would go with woody. set phrasers on pun. awful! -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )
Do you have any other serious arguments which can confirm your professional approach to discussion about Debian installation tools? If not I suggest you send next e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is list for debian users. Best Regards Mariusz Przygodzki -Oryginalna wiadomość- Od: Peter Hugosson-Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wysłano: 5 października 2000 10:45 Do: debian-user@lists.debian.org Temat: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation) Randy Edwards wrote: Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-09/lw-09-vcontrol_2.html? !-- Snip -- Anyone else have any thoughts on this article? Thanks for the pointer, Randy! It was so refreshing to know that I'm not alone in my Debian installation blues. The article also pointed to a usenet news group: news://forum.linuxworld.com/linuxworld.forums.articles.2000-09-vcontrol_2 which was full of comments from other people in my position. I was so amused to read yet another posting from a Debian fan (no names mentioned) who claimed that the install was so easy that A chicken could have done it. 95% of the time I was pecking at the Enter key. Trolls who go on like this really aren't doing Debian any favours, all they do is get people riled up, and start huge flame wars! But it got me thinking: I'd really like to see that chicken some time. He probably wears one of those t-shirts from http://www.thinkgeek.com/ with got root? printed on the back. Maybe an artistic-minded Debian fan could make a picture of the chicken, that could be used as an alternative to the penguin? He should be standing in front of a PC with the horrible dselect tree displayed on the screen, and should be pecking at the shiftQ key. I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )
I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is list for debian users. Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (not to mention redhat and others) would all be looking for new jobs by now. FWIW, I've ordered the Debian 2.2 set of 6 CDs from http://www.cheeplinux.com and have arranged a wife-free week in November for my next attempt. Right now, I am in the preparatory stage of collecting as many hints, and as much encouragement as possible. You might think I should be looking at redhat, but that's just your opinion. Most people on this list seem to think that Debian is worth perservering with. The purpose of my post was to thank Randy for pointing me at a good article, and to make a serious suggestion about a t-shirt design. We geeks like cool t-shirts, and the fact that the Debian chicken is such a long-lived animal suggests to me that he deserves to be immortalized for posterity. If I could draw, I wouldn't be asking for help here. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller Bill Gates: The man who gave cream pies a good name. begin:vcard n:Hugosson-Miller;Peter tel;fax:+468 676 5010 tel;home:+468 756 93 58 tel;work:+468 676 52 70 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:A href=http://www.im.se;IMG SRC=http://www.nasdaq.com/logos/IMIC.GIF ALT=Industri-Matematik International/A version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Software Development Specialist note:Private mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Personal Homepage: http://www.netg.se/~hugge/ adr;quoted-printable:;;Kungsgatan 12-14=0D=0ABox 7733;103 95 Stockholm;;;Sweden x-mozilla-cpt:;19328 fn:Peter Hugosson-Miller end:vcard
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
--On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but Trying to install an OS - any OS - for 5 years! I wouldn't call you a masochist - something else - but, not a masochist!
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
George Bonser wrote: I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool! Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster.
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
There are those who would have you believe that Keith G. Murphy wrote: George Bonser wrote: I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any takers? hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool! Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all. On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster. I suppose that would go with woody.
Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)
Well, the old logo did look like a chick, after all.
On the other hand we could make it a cock, er, I mean rooster.
I suppose that would go with woody.
LOL ... who says Debian users aren't funny ;-).
jt
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