On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Bill Kendrick <n...@sonic.net> wrote:
> > I haven't RTFA, but I'm curious as to what aspects of Ubuntu Linus finds > 'easy'? Hi, Bill -- Here's what he told Caitlyn Martin in the interview, for those who haven't RTFA (and Bill, to be fair, gets a pass in my book because I know a new verison of TuxPaint is being tested as we speak): "And when it comes to distributions, ease of installation has actually been one of my main issues - I'm a technical person, but I have a very specific area of interest, and I don't want to fight the rest. So the only distributions I have actively avoided are the ones that are known to be 'overly technical' - like the ones that encourage you to compile your own programs etc. "Yeah, I can do it, but it kind of defeats the whole point of a distribution for me. So I like the ones that have a name of being easy to use. I've never used plain Debian, for example, but I like Ubuntu. And before Debian people attack me - yeah, I know, I know, it's supposedly much simpler and easier to install these days. But it certainly didn't use to be, so I never had any reason to go for it." Larry
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