Re: New user rant..urr, questions. (fwd)
>I encourage you to install Debian and keep notes, and to post the
>notes, regardless of whether you stick with Debian. Your experiences
>will help us. All of us.
--+ Thanks for your encouragement. I, with previous projects,
didn't approach a task with documenting it in mind.. so this
is all new to me. =) I hope I manage to pull something
together. Already I've collected a pretty extensive amount
of reading.
>
>--David
>David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
>Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
> useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
> (I hope this is all of the above.)
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:24:35 -0500 (EST)
>From: David Teague <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu>
>sysy <sysy@crosswinds.net>
>ject: Re: New user rant..urr, questions.
>
>
>Rack:
>
>I think you will like Debian, but please, please have patience.
>
>Debian gets a bad rap for being hard to install. I am not very good
>at installation, and I got it up on my own, with the definitely
>difficult dselect and dpkg. You will be using apt, a distinctly
>superior breed of installation software.
>
>Read carefully and completely the release notes and experiences --
>OH there are mailing list archives available on the Debian web site
>www.debian.org. You have to look. It has a search engine that I
>think you can use to locate stuff. I have not used the search engine
>yet as it was set up fairly recently.
>
>I hope someone will give you some specific references to his/her
>experiences, and encouragement.
>
>I assure you, your documentation of your experiences will be
>welcomed by me, and others here on Debian-User.
>
>
>You experiences sound like my motly experience, excepting you
>replace the C64 with and Apple 2 and add several mainframe and mini
>computers to the mix, along with AT&T 3b2s with System V.2, A 386
>with a Interactive's 386ix System V.4 port to the i386, and System
>V.4 on a couple of Gateway EISA 486 machines here in the computer
>science department. As soon as Linux was available and sufficiently
>stable, we put SLS 1.01 on those machines, then Slackware, then
>Debian 0.93. We haven't looked back. In place upgrade is the way to go.
>
>I still am not very good at keeping the box running. I have had the
>good fortune of having student system administrators who seem to
>always come out of the woodwork, to be extremely good, so I have
>been able to concentrate on teaching and my one hobby, music.
>
>I maintain my own Debian systems at home, but I tend to install and
>use a version until I need something that only a later version
>provides. I have been running 2.2 (potato) since the first of the
>year when it was supposed to be unstable. It wasn't at all unstable.
>
>I program development in support of my teaching and text book
>writing. I have not lost data on a linux system due to a software
>crash, neither operating system crash, nor a failure of free
>software, since the early Debian 0.93 days.
>
>I have lost some data due to hard disk failure, but that happens
>with any operating sytem.
>
>Windows 9x crashes twice daily if I use it lightly, and at the level
>I have to push it to do my text book writing I find that 3 to 5
>times a day is more like it. From what you say, Lose 9x and NT are
>expensive jokes on users and programmers alike, jokes in poor taste.
>
>
>--David
>
>
>
>On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, sysy wrote:
>[snip]
>
>> ** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!!
>>
>>
>> --+ I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at
>> Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple of
>> occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of Linux
>> with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cursed.. for me,
>> software breaks in the strangest ways. Trust me. If you think it
>> happens only to you, yes, it's documentable and exists in others.
>> There is no cure.
>>
>> Anyways, after a horrible experience with Mandrake (it's looks
>> good but tastes bad), I've decided on Debian because:
>
>[snip]
>
>> And so I'm left here. Don't let me down.
>>
>> Rack.
>>
>> Website to come.. maybe if crosswinds (http://www.crosswinds.net)
>> gets their act together so I can update.. hrm. Anyone want to
>> host me? =)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>
>--David
>David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
>Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
> useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
> (I hope this is all of the above.)
>
>
>
>
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