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Re: Installation Party Summary
--- On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 07:57:43 +0200 (IST) Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Omer Zak wrote:
>
> > 2. I'd suggest settling on *one* distribution, and bringing as many
> > copies as possible on as many media formats as possible. You should
> > have one copy per person, so that everyone can be installing
> > simultaneously. If you can manage this, then you can also give
> > instructions from the front of the room, and have afew people going
> > around helping out with particular problems.
>
> I assume that even newbies may have special needs which require them to
> have a distribution different from the Holy Standard Distribution to be
> chosen whatever it is.
>
> true, I installed slackware96 there for the first time, after two times I
> went NUTS and installed RH from there on. I believe newbies no nothing
> about what they need, but I know what I can install more easely. you set
> up RH once and let it run, while Slackware asks you questions all the
> time, even in menu mode. anyone wants to make a ready-made tag file for
> next time? that would help...
Now you start the "SlakWare or RedHat" war again.
Decide on any Distribution will be unfair to the other, I think the newbies should get any
idea about what they get from each, and decide on their own, if he/she (any she at all???)
don't know and totaly have now idea, then the "installer" will do what he wants.
> that will drive people away (understandable). people brought me computers
> they "bought only 4 days ago" and they didn't even know what graphic
> accelerator they had... the guy had an ATI, which appears at the bottom
> corner of his win95 taskbar, but even when I told him he didn't know what
> that means... total newbies don't know what an IRQ is, man!
And I thought Linux nuts have any idea about PC's, if a man don't know what is an ATI or
IRQ are then how do you all expect them to go and read any the FAQ's (not to talk about
Man Pages...).
The man will fall of his legs,
Thanks,
Asaf.
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Date : 10/28/96
Time : 12:16:24
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