Yeah, good idea Dan. I think that's what I'll do to... If you think RedHat is better for a begginner, that's what I'll do... Cya people!!!
Regards, At 04:08 06-07-1999 +0000, Dan wrote: >First of all, debian is mostly for a hacker or at least someone who has used >another linux before. I started with Slackware and it seemed excellent. It >had great documentation and everything. For some reason, though, some person >marked it as the lowest out of the top 5 distro's (this was a few months >ago). I decided to try debian as a result to Rob Malda's phanatic'ing about >it and because it seemed like a well organized distro since it was mostly >public rather than private like most of the other distro's were. Therefore I >figured a lot of hackers used it. While I didn't read the documentation on >how to install it all that much, I pretty much winged it and at first I >thought it kinda sucked cuz the dselect program seemed ridiculous, but then >after using it I started liking it. It now runs on my server at >nightsifting.dhs.org. The point is that you should start out on something >like Redhat if you aren't close to being a hacker (and complaining >definately takes away any possibility of even resembeling a hacker). So I'd >stop complaining, go buy a nice thick book on Redhat Linux, read it >carefully, install it, then come back and we'll see if the attitude has >changed. > > >>From: Doug Dine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >>Subject: Re: Just my opinion >>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:50:11 MST >> >> >>My printer works fine. My modem works fine. The documentation has always >>been right on and the installation is a breeze. >> >> >> >>On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 17:11:51 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >FTI-- After three weeks of fruitlessly working with Debian 2.1, I >> >have come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! >> >It won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the >> >documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the >> >installation procedure has more bugs than a Southeast Asian >> >streetlight. 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. >> > Just my humble opinion. -- Max Albert >> >> >>Doug Dine >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://members.tripod.com/debiandoug/ >>___________________________________________________________________ >>Get the Internet just the way you want it. >>Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >>Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. >> >> >>-- >>Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >>/dev/null >> > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < >/dev/null Paulo Jorge Matos aka PDestroy Minister of FortuneCity - Marina District http://www.fortunecity.com Personal Page : http://pdestroy.fortunecity.com Fed. Portuguesa de JuJutsu e D.A. Webmaster : http://welcome.to/fpjujutsu World Kobudo Federation - Portugal Webmaster : http://welcome.to/wkf-pt E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page me at : http://wwp.mirabilis.com/361853#pager Site Builders Network Level 2 Member HTML Writers Guild Member
