RE: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

I'm still trying to get debian installed.

My first three to four hours was spent on not finding 3com network card and
something called bootstrap and unability to write to harddrive.

Perhaps I succeed today and see what's there in the debian world.

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Mark A. Hershberger
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:20 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions
>
>
> Tim Kelley <tpk@23rdward.org> writes:
>
> > Well, I don't think debian is "rougher around the edges" than any other
> > distro, it's more polished if anything. The installers just a little
> > plain.
>
> Yeah, that's what I meant. Still, it doesn't always work
> right-out-of-the-box the way some other distributions do. And the
> text-based installer shocks some people who think that without a GUI
> they're stuck 50 years in the past.
>
> But if you can see beyond that, there is a real nice polish on most
> of the software. They've done good work.
>
> Mark.
>
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