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Debian Etch is almost as friendly
Debian Etch is almost as friendly
Posted Oct 20, 2005 6:10 UTC (Thu) by ssavitzky (subscriber, #2855)Parent article: Dumber people can run Linux (Inquirer)
Really! It's true that all of the setup is done in text mode rather than under X, but the only X setup it required was picking which resolutions I wanted. And the text setup may be mildly annoying (if you were paying for it the marketing hype would call it "retro" and make you think it was stylish) on a workstation, but it's deeply appreciated on a tiny ARM-based gadget that has nothing but a serial port for a console.
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