Well, it is too late, and besides, there are both Fedora and MDK nowdays,
meant for newbies.
You should remember that Debian is not considered fit for newbies, and
therefore, we better not install it.
Ez.
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:55, Dotan Mazor wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:13:16 +0200
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:13:16 +0200 (IST), Alon Altman
One more spot for Debian: It's support would probably never cease.
Probably because it never existed anyway.
Commercial 3rd party support and hobbist support always existed for Debian as
well as for RedHat (9 and older) and will exist
I have personally installed Debian for several newbies. There is
nothing, I repeat, nothing wrong with Debian for newbies. The only
problem with Debian is the initial HW configuration process. As this
takes place during the installation party, that really should not be an
issue.
Having said
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:16, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
I have personally installed Debian for several newbies. There is
nothing, I repeat, nothing wrong with Debian for newbies. The only
problem with Debian is the initial HW configuration process. As this
takes place during the
On Monday 10 November 2003 18:03, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
While Debian supplies tools for all of these, and while mostly techincally
superior, in terms of user-friendliness these are usually inferior to
tools provided by other distributions.
Can you please qualify your last statement?
I
Oded Arbel wrote:
Contrary to common belief, users (not power-users) are required to
administer their computers. Installing new hardware (graphical card,
hard-drive or even a new mouse), removing old software and installing new,
creating more users, changing ISP - these things users expect to
Hi,
Let me quote from a letter from Dirk Ehrenbuettel, debian maintainer of
octave, on the detection and configuration of hardware under debian:
And, as said in the other thread, Knoppix helps. These days, I mostly
don't bother trying to figure out new hardware for graphics, sounds, ...
but pop
