[Nottingham] Debian devotion [was: OE Reply Fixer]

[Darren Fuller]

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Okay I felt after reading this that I had to reply, mostly because of a
similar experience a short while ago.  I picked up a copy of Linux
Format with Debian(woody) on, I was running Mandrake 8.1 at the time and
really wanted to try something new so I installed it on my AMD 1.13Ghz
machine, I screwed up the installation a few times (N.B. it was me and
not Debian that screwed up) but finally got it on and running

After scanning through the system to find all the commands that I needed
to connect to the internet and other such delights I was going full
speed, I spent a while getting apps such as Evolution and OpenOffice
installed but it was working.  I would have to say that I learnt more
during the first two months of using Debian than I had done in a year
and a half of Mandrake.  Then I found apt, what more can I say?  I could
never get synaptic to work but apt I loved.

A couple of months ago I moved back to Mandrake (version 9.0) as I was
getting to the point where I wanted to a distro I could use and not
think to much about, but I don't think that a weekend has gone by when I
haven't wanted to re-install Debian, most notably when I am trying to
install something and have to mess around with dependencies!

I think Debian is a system that you need to work with to get it right
for you, but when it is working as you want it to it is great.

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 00:25, James Gibbon wrote:
> Martin wrote:
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> > I must confess that its taken three NLUG meetings for me to
> > stumble upon why Debian attracts the ferver amongst devotees that
> > it does. However, I'll be staying with Mandrake for a while longer
> > until the learning curve eases off a little.
> >=20
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> I tried Debian (3.0, I think) a few months ago - it wouldn't
> recognise my DAT drive or network card, so I reverted to either RH
> or Mandy, whichever had been the most recent Linux Format magazine
> freebie at the time.  The installation procedure had already given
> a fairly poor impression in any case - it seemed crude and
> error-prone.
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> So I'd be interested to hear why Debian devotees are so fond of it
> - is it the pure no-profit motive or something inherent to the
> actual product?  If it's the latter, what does it give you that=20
> you can't get from Mandrake, RH or Suse (say)?
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> James
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Darren Fuller <darren.fuller@ntlworld.com>

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