On 09-Feb-99 William Schwartz wrote: > 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. > That is interesting, because since I am more familiar with rpm,I have avoided dselect. I ordered a Debian CD yesterday for my laptop (my other machine runs OpenLinux) so I will get another chance with the Debian packaging system.
If it works out, I might use Debian on both machines. I like OpenLinux, but Caldera does not yet use libraries I need to install newer software. -- Andrew
