Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:18:13 +0200, Martin Jungowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > Hi, > > I would DEFINITELY not suggest to use unstable if you're a Debian or > even worse, Linux newbie. It may work 95% of the time but it may also be > either unstable or not work at all after an update. That's wh

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Martin Jungowski
Hi, I would DEFINITELY not suggest to use unstable if you're a Debian or even worse, Linux newbie. It may work 95% of the time but it may also be either unstable or not work at all after an update. That's why it's called sid, still in development. I've been using sid for about a year now and duri

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:27:45PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Alfredo Valles wrote: > > The advice I always give is to install knoppix to your hard drive, > > then in 20 minutes you'll have a fully functional debian > > testing/unstable. > This is not a good advice. if he wants to up

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Alfredo Valles wrote: > The advice I always give is to install knoppix to your hard drive, then in 20 > minutes you'll have a fully functional debian testing/unstable. This is not a good advice. if he wants to upgrade there is only unstable as the option and Debian beginners should NOT use u

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-29 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Sunday 28 September 2003 4:20 am, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote: > Hi all, > > I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. > > I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management > system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of D

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Ken Bloom
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote: > Hi all, > > I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. > > I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management > system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debi

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 28 Sep 2003 10:27:19 -0500, Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: >"Tarun" == Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Tarun> I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package >Tarun> management system. However I read that one mustn't try the >Taru

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tarun" == Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tarun> I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package Tarun> management system. However I read that one mustn't try the Tarun> stable release of Debian as its very old, and must go for Tarun> the unst

Re: Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030928 01:19]: > Hi all, > > I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. > > I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management > system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debia

Redhat user wishing to try Debian - confused.

2003-09-28 Thread Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath
Hi all, I suppose this has been asked before on the list, so please pardon me. I wish to install Debian and take advantage of its package management system. However I read that one mustn't try the stable release of Debian as its very old, and must go for the unstable release instead. I am now ra