DebianPlanet and LinuxWatch have both posted reviews of Debian 3.0. As
might be expected, a lot of whinging about the installation. Little
appreciation for true merits, most of which only become apparent on
actual use and maintenance of the system.
OTOH, the upside is these leave us with a lot of "opportunity" ;-) A
fair portion of which is IMO to educate folks on what the goal of a
Debian installation is, an how it differs from a typical RPM distro:
- RPM: Installation is your last best chance to resolve deps and get
everything installed on your system.
- Debian: Installation is a bootstrap process: you want to have a
working apt-get, and whatever it is you need to find more packages
(usually networking). All else is optional, and (particularly for a
first time system) you're better off adding what you find you need
later.
The links:
Two Reviews of Debian 3.0
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/20/206226
An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0
Submitted by bfeeney on Thursday, October 17, 2002 - 21:41
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=831
Debian GNU/GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody
Added: October 19th 2002
Reviewer: TwstdRoot
http://linuxwatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=7
Peace.
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