Hi, On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rodolfo Canet-Castello wrote:
> Hi all > > After long doubts and four years using Linux, I'm finally decided to > use Debian as my distro and not change anymore. Would you > kindly clear some things to me? > > I'm thinking of installing potato, since am really fed up of half-boiled > distros (RH7, for instance), but I´d like to have some packages in > more bleeding-edge versions. Any problem about that? Should I > install woody instead if I intend to use non-stable packages? With apt (Debian package manager) you can choose if you would like to install stable or unstable versions. > I know these are questions are very newby-like, but you don't know > how different Debian sounds for a Red Hat/Mandrake guy. Thanks > for all. I have used Redhat before swithching to Debian. The most differnces I encountered is the /etc/ directory. The bootproces is slightly different, but mutually. The biggest adventure for me when switching to Debian is the package management, which is way better than rpm. Furthermore Debian is more developed for people who want to play with their system. Greetz, Sebastiaan
