[ILUG-BOM] Re: Seek advice to quit Windows

[Manoj Srivastava]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:14:42 +0530, Rony
<ronbillypop at yahoo.co.uk> said:  

> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:06:02 +0530, Rony
>> <ronbillypop at yahoo.co.uk> said:
>> 
>>> So in the era of ever evolving graphics, we empower the people
>>> with command line linux.
>> 
>> You might have meant this as sarcasm, but I do find that for
>> productivity I tend to eschew the gui. The kinds of things that I
>> can do with a simple shell script -- or a find/grep feeding a loop
>> -- would take *hours* and *hours* to do in the pointing, clicking
>> straitjacket of a pure gui.
>> 
>> Of course, this is a digression from the installer bug, and for
>> that, may I ask if an installation report has been submitted so
>> that the issue gets fixed?
>> 
>> 
> Debian is supposed to be the pillar, the foundation of Linux. It
> should not have installation bugs.

        You have a mistaken impression of Debian. It is not written by
 the immortals, and given to the masses as some kind of divine
 donation.  Mistakes happen.

> I can understand advanced bugs that could not have been noticed
> before, but not simple ones. From what I have heard about Debian, a
> contributor is not accepted officially till atleast 5 or more years,

        That is untrue. Where are you getting these, uum, simplisticly
 improbable, stories from? (while the new maintainer process is
 lengthy, I have known people to make it in in about a month). 

> in order to ensure that what is contributed is of the highest
> quality level. Debian does not release its distros as often as
> Ubuntu, in order to ensure more stability. A Debian distro should
> work out of the box without any setup issues.

        You have a very unrealistic idea of quality of software in
 general -- there is no last bug. There is never any non toy bug free
 software. And if the bug was not reported, it is not going to get
 fixed -- which means you are not doing your part in the process.

        The Debian distribution is meant to be a community effort, and
 definitely not designed for the so called non-contributing paying
 customer. (Ask me about the my dining philosophers epiphany if you
 find the goals and motivations of free software contributors like
 myself of interest)

        manoj
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