[Gllug] Linuxemporium - Pink Tie

[Adam Bower]

George Saxby wrote:
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> Not to be a smug Debian user, but the only answer is a distribution
> with a real committment to remaining Free.
> 
> It may be free but it isi still as far as Joe Public is concerned unusable, compared with RH or better still Mandrake. I can give my 12 old a Mandy or RH box to set up from scratch and she make a passable job of it, her comment on the latest debian from the LINUXEXPO was and I quote " OK very funny dad now give me the upto date discs not your old tat from years gone by, thought you could catch me Huh?"
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Its funny though, what attracted me to Debian is that I have been able 
to install it on any machine I have ever met. I have had many problems 
trying to install Mandrake, Redhat etc. onto various machines in the 
past because they have tried to do flashy things with the installer and 
use the most cutting edge software that they can find. If it wasn't for 
Debian I would have given up hope with Linux as Redhat wouldn't install 
on my machine back then. Debian has a much more flexible installer than 
any of the other distros, and can be installed on many more 
architectures than Redhat or Mandrake which means you have to make some 
sacrifices in the installer in that you can't rely on having the same 
hardware support that you would get in the x86 world.

Adam


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