Re: Two concerns (was Re: DEBIAN NEWS)
On 3 Feb 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
> Two concerns:
>
> bruce@debian.org (Bruce Perens) writes:
>
> > package manager meant to replace "dselect" is now being demonstrated, and
> > will probably appear in 2.1 or one of the early point releases.
>
> Wait! dselect is being REPLACED? Does this mean that dselect will
> cease to exist once diety is released?
Probably not, it will likely continue to exist till some change is made
that it cannot cope with.
> I run Debian on a large number of machines that have no X installed,
> either because they are not powerful enough to run X or they have no
> need for it. Additionally, remote management via telnet is much
> easier and generally more secure than over X channels.
Deity runs quite happily with slang. I haven't put any screen shots up of
it though. I test it occansionally running on va (over compressed ssh) and
it runs quite nicely.
Very Future versions may even include some form of remote admin tech..
Jason
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