On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +0000, andy wrote: > Hi all > > I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become > used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used > to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found > tremendous respect for the stable way Pat Volkerding put it together and > maintained it over the years. > So, this is my first venture forth into Debian and using Etch with Gnome > as my DE, with 1Gb RAM, a P4 processor and 200Gb HDD I am feeling well > equipped to ride the obvious and demonstrable pleasures that GNU/Linux > Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool.
Being one who still has a subscription to Slackware, I agree. I have
been running Sid (Unstable). For quite a while I have been impressed by
the one thing Debian gets right:
Install ONCE, incremental update from there on.
Unless something catastrophic comes along, you need not re-install, even
to re-deploy.
> Well done any developers who read this - thanks for building this: this
> is a rush!! I love apt-get and how stable the system seems to be, and
> responsive too. I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would
> welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system
> and good documentation for a Debian-n00b.
>
> I am seriously impressed with this system and just wanted to introduce
> myself. Lots to learn - lots of fun to be had: this is what computing
> was meant to be ...
>
> wheeeeeee .... :D
Don't ever let me catch you thinking otherwise... even when thing go
wrong with an upgrade. Usually 99.99% of bad happeneing in Debian can be
fixed by calmly explaining the problem. There are those fo us here that
have literally recovered a Debian machine from a completely lost "/var"
partition, to the point where it actually was in better shape than
before.
I have done it, so has the current Editor in Chief for the "Linux
Journal" Nicolas Petreley.
Lotsa fun.
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