On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:24:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all Debians!
>
> I am a devoted Linux user, running Caldera at work and SuSE at home
> (that's also work!). At home I have a dual boot with Win98 and I always
> have an extra partition to run an extra Linux distribution for testing,
> I've installed and configured almost all of the most common
> distributions.
>
> Debian/GNU is the most interesting projec I can imagine in the world of
> software, idealistically it suites me perfect. I really would love to be
> able to use Debian as my default OS.
> I installed Debian 2.1 (slink) several times but I was never able to
> configure it to my satisfaction, GNOME never worked, ppp never
> worked,printer never worked, everything was just a total mess. With
apt-get install task-gnome-core
pppconfig
printtool
> There definitely is a learning curve though. I would not recommend
Debian to a
Thjis learning curve is the Good Thing of Debian. You first need to
get documented before doing a thing, so you know how it works and what
will do your system.
> newbie. Storm Linux sounds like a fairly descent choice (since it has a GUI
> installer/upgrader), but I've never tried it. I plan to stay clear of RPM
> based
> systems now that I've been spoiled with Debian "deb"s.
>
> Debian is also more like a traditional Linux. Not until I used Debian did I
> realize you were supposed to add users to groups instead of simply changing
> permissions. This is just one example of things I never learned through the
> other systems.
True :)
> Finally, I should reiterate about the learning curve. When I first installed
> Debian I really screwed up. So, after doing some research on past mailing
> lists
> and other documentation, I was able to piece together how Debian package
> management works (I'm no pro though). I remember reading that it takes a while
> to setup Debain, but once in place, it's very easy to manage/upgrade/etc.
>
> It REALLY does take some time to get used to how Debian works, but, it all
> makes
> sense in the end. I encourage you to not get discouraged, but, regroup and
> learn
> Debian. It's been truly a rewarding experience for me.
I took me about 3 times, and I was a newbie, with only two months of
experience with slackware 3.4! :) I have been running the current
installation since January, I think... and impossible thing in win.
Bye!
>
> Scott
>
> PS: This is not a PAID advertisement by the way:)
>
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Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Running Debian GNU/Linux woody
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