Re: Why Debian?

[Will Lowe <lowe@cis.udel.edu>]

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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:

> Hello all,
'lo :).

> also like to get a functional, feature-loaded and maintainable system;
> in particular, I'd like good migration paths for major changes in the
> Linux architecture as a whole (libc to glibc, kernel 2.0 to 2.1,
> etc.). Would you advise to get Debian under these assumptions?

The debian package management system is great.  Essentially,  what
happens in a situation such as the above is that a new debian package will
be released which contains the change (a new kernel,  an upgraded library,
etc.).  Then you download it,  run 
	dpkg -i newpackage.deb 
and it installs itself.  It's pretty tough to screw up,  because if you
can't install the package (maybe you need to upgrade another library if
you're changing kernel versions),  it'll tell you that.  So then you get
that one,  and install that one as well ...
	I upgraded from Debian 1.2 -> 1.3 by spending ten minutes of
reading the docs on www.debian.org,  pointing the package maintainer
software at ftp.debian.org,  and letting it do the downloads and installs
itself.

                     					Will

			         harpo@udel.edu
               		       lowe@cis.udel.edu
			 http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/

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