On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 03:30 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-09-14 17:09:53, schrieb Ashley Sheridan: > > on earth anyone is going to give Debian to a Linux newbie, and if they > > do they should be taken out and shot! > > If I find you I will kill you!!! > > I am Debian GNU/Linux Consultant for many years and even Newbies running > here Debian... It just works... if you do not use the bleading edge > Hardware... > > This year I will pass my 3000th Debian installation and I would not > consider installin another Distribution @freinds or customers... > > OK, currently I am <arghhh> poking arround with Fedora since oracle want > run on Debian... And a customer IS FORCED to use a software which > support ONLY Oracle... Hell, for the price of this Software AND Oracle > (1.780.000 Euro), I can engage a whole team to build a custom software > based on GNU/Linux since from the client side it is egal, what you run > on the servers... > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening > Michelle Konzack > Systemadministrator > 24V Electronic Engineer > Tamay Dogan Network > Debian GNU/Linux Consultant > > What I was getting at was not that Debian was hard to use, but harder to install than ones like Suse or Ubuntu. I understand what you mean about being forced into specific software though. For some reason the company I work for was advised ages ago that IIS, MSSQL and ColdFusion was the combination to use, and now we have a load of legacy sites that we have to maintain. This combo is just not good for websites, and to do anything useful with CF you have to buy loads of addons. :( Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
