Re: Help

[Gregory Guthrie <guthrie@mum.edu>]

At 10:16 PM 03/30/2000 -0700, Morgan Terry wrote:
> > you're doing or why, but you'll have an OS.  I expect that because Debian
> > isn't the easiest thing in the world to install and configure properly, 
> that
> > I will learn more about UNIX and it's derivatives because I've installed
> > something off the beaten path.

-- I know Unix well, but find that many of the problems with Debian are 
Debian specific, not Unix.

The most notorious problem source to me is dpkg/dselect, which gets one 
into such a convolved situation in  some cases that there is no recovery. 
The second worst area is X; we nave lost 2 different installs because X 
would lock up the console on setup. Many other problems are the standard 
cycles of bugs in each release; again product specific.

Still, I use it!




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Dr. Gregory Guthrie
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       Computer Science Department
       College of Science and Technology
       Maharishi University of Management
      (Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
        http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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