Hi,
It depends on which distro you want. You probably want potato if you're
going to make a production server. If it's just for personal use, you want
either testing (woody) or unstable (sid). Your choice. Testing has less
bugs, but you have to wait a little while to get your software. Unstable is
bleeding edge, you get your stuff right there, bugs and all. Both are very
usable, you get to make the choice.
That said, if you're going to be using testing or unstable, you should
get
XFree 4.x, which will have the Rage 128 support built in (I'm using it now).
You can get testing or unstable by changing the sources for download during
installation. Simply change "stable" to either "testing" or "unstable"
(depending on which distro you want) and get the later packages. If you're
going to stick with potato, you can get the Rage working, but it's more of a
pain.
As for free vs. non-free, check out www.gnu.org/philosophy for tons of
explanation.
- David Nusinow
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On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:59 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote:
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> Karsten M. Self wrote (I just noticed this):
> >The book and CD are very poor. They can be used for
>
> installation,
>
> >however many people report serious problems.
>
> Hmm...Question #1: What would be the recommended way of
> installing Debian? I have cable Internet access, and I have the
> "Potato" version of Debian on seven CD's (don't really know
> what's on all the extra ones, hoped to find out soon!)
>
> There is a page for a package release (I was checking on the SuSE
> site to see how they got the ATI Rage 128 card to work) and it is
> based on the XFREE86 release 3.3.6.
>
> The Debian package release is for a non-free X server:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xserver-rage128.html
>
> Question #2: Since you CAN download this package set from this
> page; what makes it "non-free"? Simply that it is not
> "open-source"?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --mVIIs
