I'm a economics phd student--I write in LaTeX and do some light
programming so Linux is nicer than Windows for me.
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David Owen Kritzberg (david.kritzberg-at-colorado.edu)
Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 256, Boulder CO 80309-0256
Tel: 303-492-7709 Fax: 303-492-8960
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam wrote:
i'm a cross between geek/programmer/plain folk
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:11 AM
Subject: [OT] Who uses Linux? (was RE: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?)
Just curious, how many of y'all:
* are programmer folk
* are IT folk
* are plain user folk
Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it flourishes. And I'm
not
saying that Linux sucks in any way!
But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm
surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is. I got Mandrake because
it
was supposed to be the most friendly distribution to install and no doubt
it's better than RedHat or Debian and for all intents and purpose it's a
good installation process. But some of the questions the installer would
ask were just confounding to a new user and the method that you select
packages were a bit disconcerting. I know that Linux is not for the
timid,
but there seem to be just little things that could be changed to faciliate
the whole "experience." I doubt a first time Linux user would click on
Expert, the "psychology" of Linux seems a little wacked but I guess it's
not
an OS that's intended for the general population.
Let me reiterate: Don't get me wrong, I really like Linux and hope it
flourishes. And I'm not saying that Linux sucks in any way!
-Original Message-
From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 2:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake...too many apps?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Have you tried doing an expert install and selecting the applications
yourself ? That way, you know exctly what you have installed on your
system.
cheers,
philomena
yea, theres about a thousand of em. have fun :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the few things I don't care for with Mandrake is the large
number
of apps it installs by default that are of little use to me. Couple
this
the seeming all or nothing selection process and
the lack of documnetation (that I can find) on exactly what is
included
in the Misc category or not installed with the available
percentage of options and I always wind up with a very cluttered menu
stucture. I was wondering if the boxed set includes any more app
selection information...if so it would certinly be worth the price to
me.
--
Paul Bary
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