Actualy as soon as I get a chance to.. I plan to write a "debian caveats" that covers
things like ease of use /install.. various diffrences that might confuse users of
other distributions, speed of stable releases.. and so forth
With the release of Debian 2.2 the installation has become MU
Hi, everyone,
First, I agree with the comments about Red Hat in the essay. We still use
Red Hat at work, but I personally gave up on it after 6.0. It's not just
libpcap and termcap: they've now gone their own way on even the C compiler
in 7.1 (though gcc is still available). Also, 6.1 and 7.
Curious writes:
> Whee.. I wrote an essay on why I use debian...
> feel free to email comments about my first draft:
> http://www.curious.org/whydebian.html
Good essay, and a lot of the points are well taken.
(I use mostly Redhat because that's what we support at work and
I don't have time to pla
I used to use storm as my starting point (ie.. use the storm cd to install a basic
debian then upgrade to real debian :) ...
it's not that bad.. there is news of bankruptcy... sighs
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/27/1539218_F.shtml
if your looking for debian with a pretty installer and more
> But I think the real problem with Debian becoming a real mainstream and
> widely recognized distribution is that it is harder to get many peripherals
> working on it, while Mandrake, Red Hat and Corel make it super easy.
>It would be great to see some things become easier but I hope Debian
> > trying to get the aforementioned peripherals (USB mouse and SB Live) to
> > work. I finally just gave up on it and decided to use Mandrake as a
> > desktop.
>
> I stripped a mandrake system down (as far as I could) to bare bones
> and began to tailor it to what I needed.. When the next relea
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:25:04AM -0400, Kath wrote:
> Good essay.
>
> But I think the real problem with Debian becoming a real mainstream and
> widely recognized distribution is that it is harder to get many peripherals
> working on it, while Mandrake, Red Hat and Corel make it super easy.
It
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Whee.. I wrote an essay on why I use debian...
feel free to email comments about my first draft:
http://www.curious.org/whydebian.html
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