On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:00:57 +0000 Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
I stumbled across this[1] article on the linmagau (Linux Magazine, Australia?) web site.
The article claims that "Early 2004 is going to be make-or-break time for Debian... and if If Debian is going to continue to grow and develop, we're going to have to work on more than just technical innovation: we need to work on usability and visibility."
Interesting article but I think the emergence of Debian based bootable CD versions of GNU/Linux like Knoppix and Morphix completely blow him out of the water.
I think that once these have a good HD install they will take off. Just think you already have a fully functional bootable OS on the CD. All you have to do is copy the whole thing onto a HD and bang you have a working system.
And with the Debian apt-get mechanism it's pretty easy to keep everything up to date (and occasionally clobber the whole thing as well! :o) ). But with an install that easy who cares?
Keith