2011/11/24 Sam Vagni <sam.va...@gmail.com>: > Hello everyone, > > I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to > know if Debian is good to go with and learn then?
Debian has a large community and a great development, testing and packaging organization. Ubuntu is great too by the way, maybe easier for some point at the beginning. And have apt which is a very good friend for user :) > > Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' > non-compatibility with the newest hardware and not having latest > technology, is it a myth? Yes and no. Depending on the debian version you're using newest hardware could require newest version of kernel. But compiling kernel in debian is not so hard ;) Further, I hope I can use easily Flash, > Java, etc.. if Firefox if I install and go with Debian.... All of that are available on Debian (I'm using It) but sometimes the name (the project) is not the same firefox ---> ice weasel But to answer directly, yes debian is a good start because, in my opinion apt make the difference, the package manager is so useful. Try do install a vm with the squeeze net install cd http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and feel free to get some help here anytime. Happy to help a new debian user. > > Thanks for the suggestions, > SAM > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/CANGXef+w5qsfmRn1VynJ=tb0w55zfdgf-kapza9ruf9awfv...@mail.gmail.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALvL=TOZZT2LrF=glimkm8fqr-oej4uwbdsdoxzj3mgrs5d...@mail.gmail.com
