>
> This is getting damn flustering.
> The objective was to make a small MySQL server of
> basely a telephone directory
> of clients for our business.
>
> What I have firmly established is that doing such
> with the current disarray in
> Commercial Linux distributions, Red Hat, SuSE, and
> Mandriva, that that is not
> possible for anyone on the lass that guru level.
It is very possible to set up a computer with less
than guru level knowledge of Linux. The average Suse
or Ubuntu disk will happily install and autodetect
hardware and automatically give you a desktop and a
decent array of packages. Plain Debian is not
considered a distro that a "less than guru" might want
to install.
But the beauty of Debian (and some other distros) is
that it is completely configurable to your needs. It
does not assume anything. It allows you to choose
exactly what packages to install so that unlike
Winders it is not loading a media player and office
suite when you wanted a web server. But with
flexibility comes complexity.
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