I read everything on the Debian home page 
before making my decision as to which version to install, etc. I found the 
explanations good but not good enough. They are still written from the point 
of view of the engineer, the programmer. What a new, prospective Debian user 
wants to know is what are the practical consequences of installing stable vs. 
testing vs. unstable, etc. etc.


This is a valid criticism that comes up here from time to time in
different forms.  One suggestion I'd like to make:  if there's
documentation (or explanatory paragraphs on web pages or whatever)
that wasn't able to help you, then later on, when you understand
that topic a little better, please consider volunteering just a small
amount of time to help improve it.  I'm serious.  A recurring gripe
about a lot of open source software had been documentation --
non-existent, or skeletal/incomplete, or aimed only at the guru and
not at the new user, etc. etc.  Having encountered information which
should have been helpful but wasn't, you're in the ideal position to
help Debian (or any other project) get it right.  No need to commit
tons of time -- just pick one small thing, one subsection of one
document or web page, and offer up some changes.  Little things add
up, and any contribution is better than none.  And hey, if it gets
in, you just became a contributor to the project.


Cheers,

-c

Dear CMetzner:

Thanks for understanding and thanks for the kind words.

My experience with Linux began with Red Hat 5.2 then followed Mandrake, then Xandros. Xandros is a great distro, but the problem with them is that they promise that you can install all the applications you want from the Debian repository (they are a Debian derivative), but in fact you can't. If you do, you quickly mess up your system. So, I wrote a full-length Intro for Xandros Newbies about this, which is still online. You might be interested in seeing it. If this is of interest to Debian users, you are welcome to adapt it for Debian.

http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=5995&highlight=

You can also search for other of my posts under "Delphi123".

I myself left Xandros after about a year, to a large extent due to the above-mentioned limitation. I have been dual-booting with WinXP most of the time, then, in frustration, decided to leave Linux for a while. I did consider installing Debian but kept waiting, like many others, for the new Debian 3.1. Well, it's finally here and so I am back to Linux.

Benjamin

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