Re: Debian Pure

from http://www.debianpure.com/index.html

"However, installing a Debian desktop is not new-user friendly."

from my signature file ;)

Linux IS user friendly! It's just selective about who it calls 'friend'.

:) me a friend ;) bests,
eddie

>From: Matthew Dunaway <fert@eagle.ptialaska.net>
>CC: aklug@aklug.org
>Subject: Re: Debian Pure
>Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:44:51 -0700
>
>Greg Madden wrote:
>
> >On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:45 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Anybody tried this yet???
> >>
> >>http://www.debianpure.com/index.html
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Another Debian derivative, um mm. I wouldn't call it 'pure' though .
> >Debian arguably strives for that state of nirvana but adding other
> >sources to the sources.list to make a distro more user friendly does
> >not make it 'pure', or even more user friendly, or even legal in the US.
> >IMHO, Ubuntu has done all this rather well and if you can stand the
> >politics of Ubuntu you might as well use ... it.
> >
> >
>Funny you should mention Ubuntu, as I downloaded Kubuntu last night. I
>tried the "Live" version.
>Problem was, when I tried to configure my DSL account, it wanted "root"
>permission. Except there was no place to enter or even set up a root
>username/password. It boots into the user account. I tried ending the
>session and see if a root account was available, no such luck.
>Any ideas????
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Received on Thu Oct 13 14:35:38 2005