On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:40:18PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > The real "problem" is that the number of people who install > any operating system from scratch at any time is very small: > - probably less than 1%
As in LFS? (I think I know what you mean, i.e from "disk"? ) > - people have been known to throuw > away Windows machines because of software failures which would > have been solved y a reinstall. Still got a laptop going strong¹ with Debian installed, whereas Windoze died circa 3yrs ago. I believe there were no Windoze installation disks with it at the time. *cough* *cough* ¹ You have to ctrl-alt-f1, then alt-f7 to "kick" the graphics card into displaying in X, but otherwise ... :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131111130417.GA23428@tal
