On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I have > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS!
Interesting opinion. i disagree though. > It won't drive your printer, Drives my printer (Epson Stylus Color 600) fine, except that i haven't yet told it that the printer automatically inserts a margin at the top so it doesn't have to. > it won't detect your modem, Detected mine fine (3Com model 5687-03) once i set it up properly. "Properly" being that i set the jumpers, plugged it in, used setserial, rebooted to check the bios settings, and it worked. Are you sure you don't have a winmodem? Look it up at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html for a start. Did you set the proper IRQ and IO address with setserial? If it's PnP, did you properly configure things with isapnptools or other methods? > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've been many advances since then. Most of the manpages on the other hand are relatively up-to-date, and many of the more complicated packages even come with examples (look in /usr/doc/[packagename]). Then again, can you name an OS with better documentation, leaving out the issues with Debian/RedHat/Slackware/etc differences? Windows certainly doesn't; there's much less you can do, and if the 'wizard' fails there's next to nothing in the docs about making things work (i've looked). > and the installation procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian > streetlight. Haven't tried to install slink, but i hardly had any trouble installing hamm with no prior *nix experience. Then again, i didn't use the CDs, which many people on the list seem to complain about... > Whatever the advantages of a Linux-type OS may be, no one with a life > has the hundreds of hours obviously required to make this clunker run. Hundreds of hours per which timeframe? Or if you mean hundreds of hours before you get a usable system, that hasn't been my experience. > Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert And this has been mine.
