On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 12:41:47PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
And these people actually _argue_ with me. DamnSmallLinux is The Right Thing because they can boot into the installer and hit the spacebar with their foreheads repeatedly and arrive at a (feeble, limited) Linux installation. Therefore, it's the right choice, say they.
Ah, okay. That explains something I'd never really got before - "what's the point of DamnSmallLinux and other tiny-distros when a debian base install is also tiny but gives you instant apt-get access to tens of thousands of extra programs already packaged as well as a dev team of over 1000 people, many of them first-rank experts in their fields?". it's just perception and marketing. and it's not like debian is any harder to install - you can do a forehead-install and just accept all the defaults. i'd guess it's probably even easier because there's been more people working, using, testing and bug-reporting on the installer for a much longer time. the *only* extra thing you have to do to get a tiny debian install (rather than the default with-the-lot install) is to de-select the desktop environment when it gets to the Task Selection screen.
Wow. Just wow.
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