Re: Debian and Fedora

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Jason Rennie wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote:
>  
>
> > I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but 
> > failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't 
> > want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system.
> > I need to run matlab 6.1 and labview 6.1. 
> > Please give me some suggestion and reasons whether I should switch to 
> > debian. 
> >    
>
> I recently gave up on Fedora (after trying to move from RH9) and
> switched my machines over to Debian.  What did you try to install?  If
> you tried 3.0/woody, you should try installing 3.1/sarge/testing with
> the new installer.  It does a much better job of auto-detecting
> hardware.  See:
>
>  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
>
>  

Or if you like the RH installer, see www.progeny.com. You still end up 
with a basically Sarge system.




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John

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