[Gllug] Debian gateways

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Norton [mailto:bredroll at atari.org]
> 
> 
> mandrake 7.0 was very good imo, my firewall runs mandrake 
> 7.0, although its rpm
> database is screwed (glibc upgrade did it), (so i compile 
> from source now) it has 2.4.17 kernel, hmm, actually, i bet 
> there is nothing much left of its original mandrake 7.0,
> 
> recently i am of the opinion that mandrake now sucks as much 
> as redhat, debian forever!

I consider myself very much a baby geek with Linux but I have learnt more in
the last couple of weeks using Debian from the console than I ever have with
redhat or the other distributions that I have tried. I think that this is
partly to do with the fact that I am running it purely console based and the
application management is unparalleled in its simplicity. I seem to be able
to get on with the innards of Linux when not confounded by the GUI and
wondering if I have the correct stuff installed.

I was always scared to move to Debian because I imagined it was a b at st@rd to
use but have now realised that it would have been much to my advantage if I
had tried it when I started out.

For anyone in two minds about trying it, give it a go and after you have got
to grips with apt and dselect then I think most people would love it.

Harry


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