Re: control panel/installation tool

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 07:36:23PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> I was wondering if there was a control pane or version/package
> monitoring system that made installs a little less painful. Sure, it's
> great to use and know the guts of the worlds best OS, but I'd rather USE

Not really sure what you're after.  Installs are kind of a pain, it
helps when you have a firm grip on your hardware, and a few installs
under your belt.  The Debian install process basically starts with a
small base system, a reboot from hard disk, then install of the rest of
the packages.  Dpkg is pretty verbose when it installs software, it's
just not gooey.  Debian has a package/version numbering scheme.  In
fact, the quality of the debian packages/packaging system is one of its
primary selling points.  But, I don't see how it has a lot to do with an
initial installation (other than the distribution version).
  
> it to make money or show off great content as a server. It's cool, But I
> 
> don't want to hire a cadre of programmers or always spend time on the
> learning curve. I got customers to talk to.

Well, hire at least one competent Unix/Linux sysadmin, and everything'll
be roses.

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