[Autistic] intro

Baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Mar 20 23:27:05 GMT 2006


On 20 Mar 2006, at 23:05, Nick Leverton wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:10:57PM -0500, Amanda wrote:
>> I'm Amanda, some may know me from elsewhere, I help run  
>> autistics.org and so
>> forth.
>
> Hi Amanda, really pleased to see you here :)
>
>> I'm currently running Ubuntu on the desktop, although I'd like to  
>> know if
>> there's a Debian-based distribution that is not as hard to  
>> configure as
>> Debian and not as do-everything-for-you-in-maddening-ways as  
>> Ubuntu.  Some
>> middle ground.
>
> Not sure what you consider maddening about Ubuntu.  AFAIK (being  
> basically
> an up-to-date version of Debian) it does no additional configuration
> at all beyond the very little Debian does, and Debian's is limited to
> asking you a small number of important questions and editing your  
> config
> files for you - the configs all being documented in man pages.
>


In fact I would -like- Ubuntu to sort out, dvd, mp3 etc. Be nice if  
it gave you the option of having dvd dma on by default too.

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