![]() ![]() it is so true, the evolutionary scale of a Linux user if you will: It is funny, I was at the LWE in NYC this year, when I overheard a guy make this statement. and in the other part of my HD : win for my winModem :( Sniff !! and of course Mandrake is a good distrib which take good idea of debian (menu. Debian for the "programmation" and Mandrake for "Office" and "multimedia" because magazines give more. ![]() but compile a prog take times ) That's why I keep my Mandrake in my HD. Moreover there are not a lot of magazine which give. The installation is not as difficult as it is said : You can make it in the order you want and it is very useful when you had make a mistake )īut Debian is a always a guru-distrib : It doesn't detect my ATI Rage IIC and I have to configurate my SoundBlaster "by hand" :(ĭebian is a very good distrib but I think it is a distib for person who have a permanent free access to Internet (In France it is very expensive. The pakages are very good but sometimes very old : why Gnome is not the last release ? I have just install Debian2.2 (1 week) and it is really cool.Īpt-get is really fantastic and there is no equivalent in the rpm world (autoirpm & urpmi in the future perhaps ? but I have not test them a lot). ![]() And I haven't even voted yet (gimme a minute) I'll never go back to my second favorite, SuSE. If you have *some* Linux experience (enough to be comfortable with the Bash shell and use man) you owe it to yourself to try. I write this comment for those judging distributions. I am at this very moment upgrading my 2.1 ("Slink") system to a 2.2 ("Potato") system over a 56k dial-up line (yes, it takes a while, but can be interrupted and pick up where it left off). Packages and applications update *in place*. deb files (quite plentiful) and run a program called apt-get. You load an old version off CD-ROM, but Debian has a phenomenal Internet upgrade procedure. It would be a mistake to assume Debian is not up-to-date. They have a little bit of a political way of doing things which undeniably slows them down, though one has to admit that thousands of packages is a heavy weight to carry. Installation ease has to go to SuSE, though once you are familiar with the way of doing things, Debian wins out.ĭebian 2.1 is now over a year old, and in Linux terms that's ancient. The amount of packages handily defeats even SuSE. I have used early Slackware versions, SuSE 5.2 to 6.0 and Dabbled in Caldera. ![]()
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