[Glastonbury] An essay from a "Joe User" (fwd from Debian-UK)

[Kelvin McNulty]

Yes, great article. I felt very good on reading that Debian had "never 
crashed", which I do believe, I know he was not fooling himself because the 
SuSE that I run on 3 machines has also never crashed though software that I 
run has (and does still sometimes).

This article encourages me to migrate to Debian... but I'll get a spare 
machine first...

Thanks,

Kelvin

On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:02, tim hall wrote:
> Last Friday 26 November 2004 19:38, Martin Wheeler was like:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:44:55 +0000
> > From: Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org>
> > To: DebianUK <debian-uk at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> > Subject: [Debian-uk] An essay from a "Joe User"
> >
> > All
> >
> > I post this in the hope that some of you may find it of interest.
> >
> > I am the Lug Master of the Sussex LUG, and last night one of our
> > non-techie members presented a talk on his move from Windows to
> > Debian.  I thought you guys might find it interesting that there is
> > at least one member of the "general public" that not only wanted
> > a computer that doesn't crash, but selected Debian because it was
> > community developed.
> >
> > You can find his essay here:
> >          http://www.sussex.lug.org.uk/windows2debian.php
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Great article. This closely mirrors my own experience.
>
> cheers
>
> tim hall
> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
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