[Nottingham] Debian download

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:34:48AM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:46:12AM +0100, Steve Caddy wrote:
> >> I'm reading this as another suggestion to try fedora as the next step.
> > Heh, well don't :)
> Oh dear, YADA -> Yet Another Distro Argument. Considering this is a
> Linux User Group, we do seem to spend a large amount of time telling
> new members, or people considering change not to bother, don't we?

Not sure I see your point.  I just didn't want my views to go
misrepresented ;)

> > I guess it depends what you want.  I couldn't go back to Redhat and
> > it's naive package management now I don't think.
> Up2date using yum is far, far better than simply using duff old RPM.
> Yes, it even allows you to pick and choose which branch of the release
> program you want to install packages from, in exactly the same way you
> can slide from Stable to Testing (and back again) with apt. Very
> useful.

Sliding back again isn't strictly speaking supported in Debian.

It's things like the more subtle dependencies, conffiles, and all the
little ideas which glue things together well and have mostly been
thought through well like the menu system, being able to have
alternatives for a command.  I really love the bug tracking system too.

> Personally, I'd recommend Fedora to anybody, because I have never
> liked the Debian installer. I wouldn't, however, make that a point of
> telling someone not to use Debian.

I don't mean not to try Fedora /first/ of course :)


Simon.

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