On 18 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > Be prepared to receive lots of messages saying things like "unix is for > > real men that can look manpages set their own prompts" and "we shouldn't > > make any decision about the system's look and feel, the sysadm should"... > > The kind of decisions that keep newbie Linux users away from Debian... > I don't think Debian is really aiming at newbies. (RedHat is) Debian > is aiming at the power user or admin type -- the people that already > know Unix. Debian is wonderful for people like that -- you get the > raw power of Unix with the most tedious tasks conveniently automated > via the package manager. I don't think that we should go around > changing defaults like prompts just to be more friendly to newbies. > If we want to be friendly to newbies, we can write an X configurator > like RedHat; but I don't think that's what we want.
I don't agree. Most people that adopt Linux come from DOS. Linux is expanding the UNIX users base. I come from DOS-OS/2 too. I used Slackware, and I changed because it was a mess. Current newbies that start with RH won't change to Debian, they don't need to. And those newbies learn, become `RH-gurus' and sit quietly at home waiting for a commercial corporation to handle their OS =). I also think that we should try to aim to the bigger amount of targets that we can... So I say: PS1="[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ " !!!! =D -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
