[Sussex] Question re: my presentation

[Gavin Stevens]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:27:08 +0000
Geoff Teale <gteale at cmedltd.com> wrote:

Many thanks to all for their input on this question. It seems overall
that Debian is not that much different from other distros in terms of
setting up dial-up internet.> 
> Really Debian, Gentoo, Arch, etc.. are not aimed at novice users and
> so they don't make this stuff blindingly obvious (or indeed install it
> if the user has no need for it).

I hear many people say this about Debian. However, the core theme of my
talk will be that Debian is IMHO an ideal distribution for the
beginner....> 
> This differentiation of distributions approach is a great strength of
> Linux but also a frustration for people getting into Linux - if all
> the experienced people say Debian/Gentoo/Aunt Mable's Linux is the
> best how come it's so hard t figure out?
> 
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:55 +0000, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > As part of my planned presentation (hopefully at the Nov moot), I
> > was just wondering if anyone had any experience of installing a
> > distribution other than Debian & how easy was it to configure that
> > distribution for dial-up internet connection? Did it work pretty
> > much straight out of the box, or was there more to it?
> > 
> > Any answers much appreciated.
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > Gavin.
> > 
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