Hi,
Let me quote from a letter from Dirk Ehrenbuettel, debian maintainer of
octave, on the detection and configuration of hardware under debian:
"And, as said in the other thread, Knoppix helps. These days, I mostly
don't bother trying to figure out new hardware for graphics, sounds, ...
but pop
On Monday 10 November 2003 18:03, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >While Debian supplies tools for all of these, and while mostly techincally
> >superior, in terms of user-friendliness these are usually inferior to
> > tools provided by other distributions.
>
> Can you please qualify your last statement?
Oded Arbel wrote:
Contrary to common belief, users (not power-users) are required to
"administer" their computers. Installing new hardware (graphical card,
hard-drive or even a new mouse), removing old software and installing new,
creating more users, changing ISP - these things users expect to
On Monday 10 November 2003 12:16, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> I have personally installed Debian for several newbies. There is
> nothing, I repeat, nothing wrong with Debian for newbies. The only
> problem with Debian is the initial HW configuration process. As this
> takes place during the install
I have personally installed Debian for several newbies. There is
nothing, I repeat, nothing wrong with Debian for newbies. The only
problem with Debian is the initial HW configuration process. As this
takes place during the installation party, that really should not be an
issue.
Having said th
> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:13:16 +0200 (IST), Alon Altman
> > One more spot for Debian: It's support would probably never cease.
Probably because it never existed anyway.
Commercial 3rd party support and hobbist support always existed for Debian as
well as for RedHat (9 and older) and will exist
Well, it is too late, and besides, there are both Fedora and MDK nowdays,
meant for newbies.
You should remember that Debian is not considered fit for newbies, and
therefore, we better not install it.
Ez.
On Monday 10 November 2003 09:55, Dotan Mazor wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:13:16 +0200
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:13:16 +0200 (IST), Alon Altman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
We are building the branding for the "Haifux distro" based on RH9.
It would probably be too late to mention, but since RH would stop
supporting its 9 version in the next months, I would recommend you to
distr
ביום ראשון, 12 באוקטובר 2003, 15:13, Alon Altman כתב:
> Hi,
> We are building the branding for the "Haifux distro" based on RH9. We are
> looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the
> bookmarks of the installed system.
>
> We currently have the following sites (inc
Alon Altman wrote:
Hi,
We are building the branding for the "Haifux distro" based on RH9. We are
looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the
bookmarks of the installed system.
We currently have the following sites (including sponsors):
[...]
http://www.google.com/
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Alon Altman wrote:
> Hi,
> We are building the branding for the "Haifux distro" based on RH9. We are
> looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the
> bookmarks of the installed system.
>
http://lwn.net/
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> We cur
Hi,
We are building the branding for the "Haifux distro" based on RH9. We are
looking for Hebrew linux sites and useful English sites to include in the
bookmarks of the installed system.
We currently have the following sites (including sponsors):
http://counter.li.org/
http://fr2.rpmfind.net
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