That's one smart Nine year old... When I was nine all I did was write clever batch files on win3.1 and make a mess.mzilikazi wrote:Is Linus so busy that he cannot take the time to become at least slightly familiar with the subject at hand before forming an opinion or does he always let someone else form his opinions for him?Chapter 6 wrote: Does anyone actually read words literally anymore?
Linus Torvalds wrote:So the only major distribution I’ve never used has actually been Debian
This says to me in a literal sense that Linus has never even used Debian and yet he has the audacity to say that the installer is not simple. From where does he get his information? Perhaps you agree w/ Linus that Debian is difficult to install?
I have never told anyone that Debian is not for beginners. Anytime I convert a Windows user to Linux it's not Ubuntu or Mandriva or PCLinuxOS - it's Debian. My son uses and can install Etch by himself. Additionally he has root on his own box and does his own upgrades. If a 9 year old can do it then kernel genius Linus can.
I regard Torvlds' opinion of Debian in the same light as I do those of my aquaintances, family, co-workers and so on who all say "Linux is too hard" and yet not one of them has ever used Linux......
Exactly worthless.
I regard those who make unknowledged claims as total hypocrites, as they have no idea what they are saying. Torvalds claims that the whole concept of a distro is that is is easy to install and manage. What can you use besides a distro? A kernel on its own gets you nowhere, as he has said earlier, so claiming that distros are meant to be simple is false; as I remember from an article, distros were created to provide functionality and features.