On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:23, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Ueli Meier wrote: > > What where your reasons to switch to debian? > >>Could you explain more? > >>What does it mean Debian is not tuned for the desktop, more work to > >>install? Or is there more to it? > > I used to use Suse on a couple of servers an workstations. I got fed up > by it, when I realized that my shiny new Suse-laptop would not work 'out > of the box' with our Suse-server, which was one or two 'versions' > behind; ie. file exchange and printing would not work. I switched the > laptop to debian and later instead of upgrading the servers and other > workstations to newer Suses, I installed debian on all our machines. > > Main advantage: debian is a lot easier to maintain, once set up; less bugs. > Main disadvantage: maybe it takes a bit longer to configure graphics, > mouse etc. for first time users. > > > What is more flexibility, can I install less pakages than with other > > desktops and save harddisk space and memory? > > Well, probably any distribution has a package managment system to allow > selection of more or less packages for installation. Debian's apt is > said to be superior to rpms in checking for you what additional packages > are required, if you want to install application xyz. It also > automatically removes these additional packages, when at a later stage > you decide to remove xyz. In that sense, it's probably easier to decide > which packages you can savely remove to save disk space, if the default > 'workstation' setting is to bulky. > > On installation you could start with a minimal setup and then manually > add all packages you need. Selecting things like 'kde' would install a > lot of other packages as well, but only the essential stuff, ie > openoffice et al. can be installed seperately. > > Johannes
Thanks for all the answers, I will give it a try. Ueli > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
