Re: Why choose Debian?
I have to second this. I started using Linux in I think 1996 with
Slackware and kernel 1.2.13. People always told me that if you want
to really learn UN*X, get Slackware because it's usually broken and
really forces you to do stuff manually. I then started using Red Hat
since I heard great things about the rpms. Bullshit. Shortly gave up
on that and built everything manually from tarballs. I saw
"unresolved depenencies" more often than not. Debian I started
checking out a couple of years ago and have never turned back.
Package management is amazing. And its sticking to standards and GNU
really appeals to me. I do sysadmin at work on a Solaris, OpenBSD,
and now also a Linux server. We got a server from Dell, who offers
Red Hat. No thanks. I ordered it with a blank hard drive and got
Debian CDs and set it up myself. I love it.
-Ken
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001, vijay@linuxfreemail.com wrote:
> When I first started with Linux it was with Slackware with kernel 2.0 which I got of a CD accompanying the magazine(PCQuest in India). I was mainly dependent on the CD's which I got of the magazine since it was not possible to download distros of the web through my 28.8 kbps net connection.
> Then the same magazine started giving Redhat Linux. So I followed redhat right from 5 till 6.2. I learnt most of the fundamentals about GNU/Linux on that!!!
> During this period I heard about Debian and I set on a CD hunt. Finaly I got it of a friend in my institute who had downloaded it and burned it on a CD. I actually got only the first CD but that was enough to get me going. I replaced Redhat and installed it and have not regretted it ever since.
> The package management system dpkg/apt is simply the best I have ever used and maintaining the system once it is installed is the easiest among all the other systems. The one problem I faced at the beginning was that the packages were not up to date. But that went away when I started following unstable (I like to stay on the bleeding edge).
> One thing I should say about GNU/Linux in general is that it is really user friendly. No I am not talking about user friendliness defined as working on pointy clicky things but in the sense that I get to know what I need to know and nothing is hidden from me and Debian is the distro which embraces this idea to the fullest.
> Those are some of the reasons why I chose debian.
>
> Vijay Prabakaran.
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