On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:10:50PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > thing is that the initial installation is important to a newbie because > that is what they are focused on at the start. The fact that it will save > them hours and hours down the road in maintenance once they DO get it set > up is not very important at that stage.
Indeed - one of the things that most impressed me about Debian was that once I'd done the install, pretty much all the services I'd installed support for were set up and working. With previous distributions, I'd always had to spend far too much time figuring out what I'd installed and working out how to configure it. One of the most challenging problems for the new admin/install tools will be keeping this while making things easier for less experienced users. One thing that I've heard said and which sounds about right is that Debian may not be your first Linux system, but it probably will be your second and after that you're unlikely to want to change. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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