I really hate to continue this thread, but I thought I'd throw in my experience. I was "turned on" to Linux by a friend, and he was using Debian, so I installed it and tried it. About 2 days later I had a working Debian system. Mind you I was a COMPLETE Unix numb-nuts. The only real command I knew was "ls". I also after playing with Debian for a week tried Red-Hat. The install went very well, but that was all I ever got done... I did not know how to get other "packages" installed and such. I was stuck with a "system" that was empty. It had almost nothing installed on it, and I did not know how to get any more installed on it. So, I went back to "dselect" (hamm) & Debian and have been using Debian ever since. Even if Red-hat has a good installation procedure, it was "dselect" that won me over.
Will ----- Original Message ----- From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 4:33 PM Subject: RE: slashdot poll > >On 09-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:56:11 -0500, Christian Lavoie wrote: >> >>>Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in >>>less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with >>>Debian. >> >> A liar, for sure since a reasonable install would take more than 15 >> minutes, much less "fully up to speed." To contradict it here is a person, >> me, who had a hell of a time getting Red Hat to install but has no problems, >> at all, with Debian and I FTP install each time over a modem. > >Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got >RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. > >-- >Andrew > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
