On 12/08/05, Mladen Gogala <gogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am an Oracle DBA. I use Oracle to pay the bills. Yes, I am dependent upon > it. I used to > depend on VAX/VMS but since the demise of DEC, I am using various versions of > Unix: SCO, > AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Linux. My favorite one is HP-UX. I don't know much > about Debian. > They haven't motivated me to learn it, so I am blissfully ignorant of them. I > prefer it to > stay that way. > I recently had to install Debian as part of a project I'm doing to rollout Linux as a desktop and small server OS (replacing Windows domain controllers and small application servers) in Libraries. Debian's installation is possibly akin to having a cavity search or root canal surgery, most likely both at once. Very unpleasent. That level of user hostility cannot be accidental, IMO no-one could accidentally write an installer that bad. Stephen -- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l