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Re: Why choose Debian?



on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:33:05PM -0600, Nate Bargmann (n0nb@networksplus.net) wrote:
> My story.

> In a word, apt-get rocks!  People have difficulty believing the
> stability of Debian and the ease of apt-get.  In fact I mostly use
> dselect and I don't harbor the disdain for it that others may (I tried
> console-apt for the first time last weekend and it has a long way to go
> before it replaces dselect for me ;-).

If you haven't yet, give 'aptitude' a whirl.  I also started with
dselect, and find it both useful and usable, but aptitude rocks.  Not
sure where console-apt came from and went to, but I believe it's been
supersceded.

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