>I learned Debian as, basically, a complete newbie to Unix/Linux. I think
>it's mostly a matter of visibility. Newbies are just not aware of
>Debian.
I don't know what you'll think, but perhaps the way we Debian users
could
promote Debian to our colleagues is by referring the old W95 way, that is
'everything happy and easy' but also making remember them the horror
stories they had with that stuff. Actually with Corel Linux happens the
same, so they don't want to suffer more, do they?
So some sacrifice is needed in order to get a decent OS, with the
rewards
and transparency mentioned in previous messages.
The only event that could damage this debianist attitude for brave
desktop
users could be if M$ releases something decent with their future mixture of
2000 and 98 (hope it's the same DOS-W integration they did with 9X!)
I believe in the mouth-to-ear promotion.
Hope you find it interesting,
Ignasi (still nationalizing his computers)
At 18.20 31/7/00 -0400, Tom Pfeifer ha escrit:
>"Arthur H. Edwards" wrote:
>>
>> The question was "Why is Debian the last, rather than the first,
>> distribution?" To a large degree your response is the answer. People
>> brand new to Linux eat kernels, they don't compile them. So, if you
>> don't want it to be the last distribution, perhaps you shouldn't
>> expect them to compile their own kernels!
>
>People brand new to Linux also don't know one kernel from the next. I
>can't see that as a deterrent.
>
>> So, as usual, Debian has to
>> know itself. It IS the last distribution. It requires more than a
>> newbie level of sophistication.
>
>I learned Debian as, basically, a complete newbie to Unix/Linux. I think
>it's mostly a matter of visibility. Newbies are just not aware of
>Debian.
>
>> It also has large rewards.
>
>That's for sure!!
>
>Tom
>
>
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