Welcome to Debian!! Mike
Quoting Chip Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I just switched to deb3.0 from Mandrake8.0. I am beyond ecstatic with > it. The install was easy (used 7cds from Linux Central), user-friendly, > the defaults were acceptable even for a total beginner. I don't know a > whole lot about Linux even after my past several years of constant use - > the Redhat/Mandrake world has fogged my brain I guess. I've installed > and used Redhat 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, Mandrake 6.0 and 8.0 over the past few > years, and have been using Linux exclusively for that whole time. > Redhat crashed often, and was a mind-numbing puzzle to update RPM's and > figure out where things installed - nothing matched the Linux info I was > reading on the web. Mandrake was more graphical and easier - I tired of > puzzling over the thing - just wanted something stable, and I knew > (thought) that Linux was more stable and powerful than M$-Windows. But > despite its graphical ease, Mandrake crashed constantly! I thought it > was my flaky hardware (not!), and I despaired of using Linux. I had > often bragged to friends about how stable Linux was, how > resource-efficient, and how Linux users rarely had to turn their > computers off or reboot because of crashes. But it was practically a > lie! I was so embarrassed when my system would crash constantly, even > when no apps were running - yaaaghh! > > I've been using Debian3.0 for 3 days now - fast and stable - tons of > packages that are easy to get and install. Already I've learned how to > start ppp from the console and how to do it via scripts > (chat/provider/pon/poff) - something I could never do in Mandrake/Redhat > - I normally just rely on kppp to do the job for me, and I never learned > anything in the process! Even rebooting my computer with Mandrake would > cause a kernel panic - I had to wait 5 minutes before turning my > computer back on or else Mandrake would freeze/kernel panic during the > boot. Doing a system halt would segfault under Mandrake! I couldn't > leave my computer on at the kdm logon screen - it would freeze the > entire system. Once I spent a long hour on the web creating an online > retirement plan with a lot of details, and then my computer just FROZE > UP and I lost everything! Yaaaghhhhh!! The list just goes on and on.. > I could talk your ear off with it all. > > Normally I wouldn't have dared to type such a long note without first > saving it, in case Mandrake would crash and I'd lose all my wonderful > typing. Sorry for abusing bandwidth and list etiquette with this long > email - I'm just on cloud nine because I'm finally using a REAL Linux, > and I can now truthfully say: > LINUX IS UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL AND STABLE!!!!! > Debian Linux that is! > > Thanks again for listening, > > Chip Rose > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Virginia Beach, VA > "Debian Rules" > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
