Or, in the case of some of us, got our start on slackware. Back when you could fit a decent linux system on a few floppies.
Ahhh... the Net floppy, the Games floppy, all the floppies carefully downloaded and written to 3.5" with rewrite, and carefully rewritten when a sector on one of the floppies was bad. Yes, I got my start on slackware, and proud of it. William > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:27 PM > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: Re: responding to more Halcrow Debian Bigotry, was Re: [uug] > snort on redhat 9 > > I mean uh, I know I'm an electrical engineer, and most of my buddies are > too, but we all picked up Caldera, or RedHat, or Manrake (or Debian for > an unlucky few) and just installed it ourselves the first time. It > didn't work totally flawlessly (but pretty well) and that's how I ended > up here eventually. I guess for mere mortals a guru is needed for the > first Linux experience and if the guru likes Debian then more power to > him, the newbie won't know the difference after intstall :) Honestly > though, if it weren't for some fairly intuitive GUIs from the above > mentioned distros, us EE's who think computers should obey us just > because we know Ohm's law and Maxwell's Equations would have been > totally hopeless. > > Bryan > > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:44, Hans Fugal wrote: > > > P.S. Honestly, I do think that is pretty cool that you can do that, > and > > > I'm sure it would be educational and fun. Just don't recommend > > > installing Debian to newbies like Michael Halcrow always half jokingly > > > does. I've seen two different first timers get their intro. to Linux > > > with Debian and both were turned away. One recovered about a year > later > > > and now he has redhat on like three computers at home. The other is > > > still recovering, and he looks at me with this underserved awe > whenever > > > I mention that I use Linux. It doesn't have to be that hard man, it > > > really doesn't. > > Two points. > > > > One: yes, you're right. The installer is one aspect of debian being > > heavily worked on as we speak. > > > > Two: How many linux users get started installing their own distribution > > anyway? A significant number, sure, but not the majority. Usually > > someone else installs or at least helps to install. In that situation I > > would recommend Debian for newbies simply because although it is not > > easy to install it is much easier to admin. Just make sure you get all > > the basic major things they need installed and configured (e.g. samba) > > before leaving them to it. I've done just this and the people I've set > > up with debian have fewer troubles than the ones I set up with redhat. > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
