Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
On Jun 10 2000, John McBride wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > RedHat is a system you install many times (note: biased opinion, but
> > based on upgrades 4.2 -> 5.0 -> 5.2).
> >
> > Debian is a system you install twice (once to learn how, once to get it
> > right).
>
> I tentatively agree. But my employer (for example) would take
> RedHat, Storm or Corel over a raw debian, simply because their
> installs are far more modern and professional.
More professional? More canned, that is. :-) Easier to the
newbie, perhaps?
I can't think of a method as professional as Debian's when I
go to a customer and install only the base system from a slink
CD and then interrupt the whole process and continue
installing everything that I need with apt-get and a small
mirror of potato that I carry with me in a CD-R (that I make
periodically).
Great for situations where you only want to install the
necessary packages (and I've had a lot of customers that
demanded a very slim installation -- like a working server of
many things in 200MB).
> But for me, I can't stand KDE, and RedHat has some oddities that
> just annoy the heck out of me, like (IMHO) extremely poor
> pre-release testing.
I wouldn't care for this as much as I do if I knew of a thing
in Red Hat similar to Debian's apt-get. I *do* mind upgrading
the systems a lot, but the situation is a lot more acceptable
if you have a way of performing easy and quick updates
whenever you need them.
> Actually, I strongly prefer startx, but don't see how to disable gdm
> without breaking helix-gnome -- it seems to require gdm. You can't
> simply edit /etc/inittab like you can on RedHat. apt-get remove gdm
> pulls helix-gnome off the system. I'll review those files.
# update-rc.d -f gdm remove
is what I use.
[]s, Roger...
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