[PLUG] Rat off a Sinking Ship?

[Brian Beattie]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:41, alan wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2003, Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:00, guy1656 wrote:
> > > I am running Mandrake 8.1
> > > 
> > > Now that they are filing for bankruptcy, what's the simplest way to migrate
> > > to something 'still viable?'
> > 
> > debian
> 
> <insert distribution flamewar here.>
> 
> I don't think he could install Debian.  He has a 56k modem line, if that. 
> Most Debian distributions insist on downloading anything and everything.

There is really only one Debian distribution and it is easy to downloas
ISO images and burn them to install off CD.

> 
> Not to mention that Debian is not the most user friendly version of Linux.
> 

You said best, not most novice friendly

"UNIX is very user friendly, it's just picky about it friends"
> 
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