I just installed Debian on a friend's machine, a computer junkie but full-blown Linux newbie. For the sake of his reactions, I thought I'd give y'all his impressions of Debian.
This guy previously had RedHat installed on his machine. He loved RedHat's installation and GUI nature but couldn't get anything to work. I explained to him that in the way that Win95 hides users from the "real" workings of the OS (i.e. DOS) RedHat sort of hides users from "real" Unix and the text config files that run the OS. While the idea of editing text config files isn't new for him, what did surprise him was Debian's X installation. He was mildly appalled at Debian's X installation. My priority was to get his IP masquerading and basic networking functions working and I wanted to leave configuring X to him (after all, you've got to jump in somewhere!;-). Still, the mysteries of X are somewhat overwhelming (e.g. what's a RAMDAC and which one do I have?). I'd rather leave someone to figure out Samba or colorizing your prompt than to leave them without a slick, working X configuration. I don't mean this as a knock or anything, but this one guy was pleased with Debian (and will continue to run it, he said) but felt that Debian's X installation needed a *lot* of work. -- Regards, |Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | ...because lockups are for convicts... Tech. Coord./Teacher |What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null