On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:30:23AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > That person would be me. No, I'm not a Debian maintainer but anyone can > build kernel packages which follow the Debian guidelines. Trew, but that presupposes knowing git, kernel compilation in Debian, and that you have a working copy of linux installed. Getting from point A to point B without a working, accessible distro installed and with only a Winderz background...Come on, guys. We know better than this, and while he's trying to use Firefox in the Etch GUI without Orca support and fighting with the CLI to find something that will display a web page...he's going to have a hard enough time discovering that some 500 binaries are installed, many of them barely configured, who's man pages are written in an alien language written for super-geeks, all from a barely documented SpeakUP interface. I, myself, had to install Slackware 11 which came with SpeakUP and enough docs on the CD to be able to use it, get sendmail up and running with fetchmail to get on the mailing lists, find the Shane CD to finally install Debian, which I was somewhat familiar with already when I was sighted. Even with a previous linux background, it took three months just to get bakck into Debian. Until Debian officially supports us, I can't recommend it to anyone else. I'll recommend those that do, and hope he eventually finds Debian when he knows what's what and can see Debian's superiority. If he were sighted, I'd recommend Debian first with no reservations. Michael
