Re: slashdot poll
I really hate to continue this thread, but I thought I'd throw in my
experience. I was "turned on" to Linux by a friend, and he was using Debian,
so I installed it and tried it. About 2 days later I had a working Debian
system. Mind you I was a COMPLETE Unix numb-nuts. The only real command I
knew was "ls". I also after playing with Debian for a week tried Red-Hat.
The install went very well, but that was all I ever got done... I did not
know how to get other "packages" installed and such. I was stuck with a
"system" that was empty. It had almost nothing installed on it, and I did
not know how to get any more installed on it. So, I went back to "dselect"
(hamm) & Debian and have been using Debian ever since. Even if Red-hat has a
good installation procedure, it was "dselect" that won me over.
Will
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From: Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 4:33 PM
Subject: RE: slashdot poll
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>On 09-Feb-99 Steve Lamb wrote:
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>> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:56:11 -0500, Christian Lavoie wrote:
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>>>Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat
in
>>>less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with
>>>Debian.
>>
>> A liar, for sure since a reasonable install would take more than 15
>> minutes, much less "fully up to speed." To contradict it here is a
person,
>> me, who had a hell of a time getting Red Hat to install but has no
problems,
>> at all, with Debian and I FTP install each time over a modem.
>
>Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got
>RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them.
>
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>Andrew
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