RE: Help on Debian advocacy
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De: N. Raghavendra [SMTP:raghu@mri.ernet.in]
Date: mercredi 10 mai 2000 9:23
A: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Objet: Help on Debian advocacy
Hello everybody,
I work in a place where there is a network of about 60 pcs mostly
running Slackware Linux. A year ago a couple of friends and I
installed Debian (Hamm) on the PCs in our offices, and have been
happily using it since then.
I want to advocate the use of Debian in the computer centre here. Since I
use Hamm, and am very far away from the current versions of Debian, I
would appreciate any info/pointers on the following questions:
1) How stable is Debian Potato? Can it be installed safely on all the
servers and macchines in an office network? Ditto ditto for Debian
Woody?
[Van Buggenhaut Eric] potato isn't stable, it's "frozen". I use it happily
here.
Woody isn't stable, it's under current development, if u install it, u'll
get into trouble.
2) Are Potato CD's available in the market? If so what version of the
Linux kernel do they ship with?
[Van Buggenhaut Eric] Since potato isn't "stable" yet, no CD's have been
released yet. Read Debian doc if you want to know about the criteria for
"stable" or "frozen". They're really strict and that explains why slink,
the current "stable" version uses kernel 2.0.38. Although Debian doesn't
release potato as stable yet, many other companies would do it 'cause it is
already stable, but Debian has very high criteria.
3) There are about 30 public machines in the computer center here, all
sharing a common file system through NFS, and all of them YP
clients. If they install Debian on all these machines, how difficult
would it be for sysadmins to periodically upgrade to a more recent
kernel in all of them? Can it be done at one go, or do they have to
upgrade the kernel in each machine searately?
[Van Buggenhaut Eric] Debian upgrades are made through an app called
"apt-get". Keeping your system up-to-date means typing *2* command lines
:-)
Debian is famous for this functionality.
foo# apt-get update
foo# apt-get upgrade
And that's it !
4) How does Debian compare with SuSE and Redhat with respect to the
number and nature of packages in the distribution? I am quite
satisfied with the 1500 or so packages in Hamm main, but the
establishment guys here say that they want a distro with as many
packages as possible.
[Van Buggenhaut Eric] Debian ships with 2500 packages, i think
5) Are there any Debian advocacy pages on the web, which I can use to
convince people here?
[Van Buggenhaut Eric] Check debian website, www.debian.org
Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance.
Regards,
Raghavendra.
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N. Raghavendra, Mehta Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi,
Allahabad 211 019, India.
Fax: 91-532-667576; Phone: 667511*2020 (O) 667511*4020 (H)
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