[Gllug] Debian
David Damerell
damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Aug 28 09:51:21 UTC 2001
On Tuesday, 28 Aug 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>difficult to install but it went amazingly smoothly. The setup screens
>may be text/curses based but they were at least as informative and
>helpful as Mandrake's graphical ones.
Speaking as a Debian weenie, the only difference I've seen between GUI
installation utilities and text ones is that sometimes the GUI ones
misunderstand your graphics card and die horribly.
>The only problems I had was with the startup floppies not copying
>properly because they were corrupted, and also having to enter io memory
>and irq interrupt values for my ISA Ethernet card.
Tulip-based PCI cards go for 15 quid. :-)
>apt-get to install new stuff is pretty good, though I've not exactly
>found dselect to be very intuitive.
dselect is the worst interface for managing 4,000 packages apart from
every other one in existence.
>I've noticed that RedHat seems to be used for servers a lot. Is there a
>technical reason for this, or is it just because RedHat aggressively
>targets server sellers?
To many people, Red Hat _is_ Linux.
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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
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