[Wolves] Linux woes

[Matthew Revell]

I'm redownloading Debian in the b/g ... the ISO I'd Jigdoed last week is
sitting on my laptop in Hull. Hope to install it this afternoon ... ah,
the joys of being an unemployed bum.

I've played around with Mandrake before and I remembered liking one or
two things about it but in general it felt like it had been put together
with string. I've tried quite a few distros: RH8.0 and 9, SuSe 7.3,
Lycoris, Mandrake 9.1, Gentoo (sort of) ... so hopefully I'll settle
with Debian.

I suppose the main thing I'm noticing about Linux is that Windows has
made me lazy but in a good way. Okay, it's fun to hack around for ages
until something works - well, sometimes - but I'd really rather things
just worked without the heartache :)

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 12:12, Jono Bacon wrote:
> --- Matthew Revell <matthew@understated.co.uk> wrote:
> > Cheers for that. It told me that the package wasn't
> > installed, so I then
> > looked in the directory that it told me it _would_
> > be installed in and
> > it was there! Well, something was there, I couldn't
> > find an executable
> > file but I think that's down to the vagaries of
> > Opera's installation.
> 
> I don't want to start a round of RPM bashing, but RPM
> does tend to confuse things sometime.
> 
> As for your question about apt-get; a package for
> Debian will add things to the menu's and set it up for
> the Distro properly - in the same way it does it on an
> RPM system...but better. ;)
> 
> If you are not confined to sticking with Red Hat, you
> may want to investigate Mandrake as a distro until you
> join the join the Debian club. ;)
> 
> Seriously though, this is a great opportunity to get
> to know Linux really well. It will be scary, but feel
> free to post questions to this list and use the IRC
> channel for help. :D I wish most new Linux people got
> chucked in the deep end like this...it really does
> help you get to grips with the system.
> 
>   Jono
> 
> 
> 
> 
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