[Gllug] Re: Debian hopeless

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 04:43:00PM +0000, Garry wrote:
> >   I have had a network card driver module demand the I/O address and IRQ >
> > as set for a card, refuse to accept the known settings used previously,
> > but then install the module after the settings I entered had been deleted.
> 
> I'm obviously wasting my time, then, as I'm looking for a distro to
> recommend to students. With Debian we'd end up spending half the course
> getting the hardware working.

That rather depends on the skill of the teacher.  I taught a week-long
cause on Linux admnistration at Westminster University last year, and
the installation process only took up one afternoon.  It would have been
rather shorter if I had given them all CDs rather than requiring them to
do a network installation from boot floppies.

-- 
Bruce

I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real)
proves that we are not living in Judea in AD 50. -- Philip K. Dick
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