What I'd really like is a "Debian for NetBSD People" guide, but, failing that, maybe a couple kind souls out there can answer some questions I've got.
Note: I'm not running Debian yet - I'm running NetBSD-current - but I think I'm going to give Debian a try for a while. I'll clear out a mostly unused partition and have at it. :) My questions: 1) Once I've got everything installed in a basic way, how do I build and install the world myself? In NetBSD, it's as easy as "cd /usr/src ; make build". What's the Debian equivalent? 2) What would you folks recommend as a boot manager that'll seamlessly choose between NetBSD and Debian, letting me set the default arbitrarily? 3) Is there an equivalent to the NetBSD practise of a nightly sup of current sources? 4) How "automated" is the Debian package system? For instance, NetBSD will, if presented with a package that requires something which doesn't exist on the current system, ftp the package sources and build the package, etc. If *that* package requires something else, it'll recursively snag everything needed, ftping everything by itself and requiring no user intervention. Does the Debian package system do this? 5) Is tcpwrappers a standard part of the system? What about IP-NAT? UUCP? Thanks in advance for the help. If I like Debian enough after using it for a while, I'll give serious thought to switching over to it as my primary OS. (I'll likely end up running it on on an i386 and a mac68k, FWIW.) -- Mason Loring [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mason "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;
