Re: Debian or Stormix
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 05:01:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> I currently use FreeBSD 4.1. I have played with RH, MD,
> SuSE, and Caldera in the past. I like learning new things
> and thought that I would like to try Debian.
>
> As I understand it, Stormix is based on Debian.
> Other than different "system installers" and Stormix
> has a "graphical" boot screen, are there any other
> differences? Stormix Deluxe comes with some "users"
> documentation books where as Debian does not. I'd like
> to learn Debian. I've heard a lot of good things on
> Debian's stability, dselect, dpkg, and apt-get, etc.
> If Stormix and Debian are the same I would be willing
> to pay the extra for Stormix Deluxe just to get the
> documentation books that come with it.
>
> Any comments? Please no flame wars. There is enough
> flame wars about the stupidest things already.
>
hehe. i've used fbsd 4.0 and 4.1 (release and stable) and what i'll tell you is
go for debian. you want documentation? then goto to linux.oreilly.com as
there's an online book about debian there (though it's for debian 2.1 but
there's not much difference).
hth.
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