Why Debian Is Great!
Hi folks,
this could be meant as a reply to the "Why choose Debian?" thread, but I
haven't actually read it. I've been too busy fiddling with my system
the last couple of days.
For over a year now, I have been using Debian slink on my home machine,
an old Pentium 133. I have tried Linux in 1995 using a Slackware dist
that came with a book and then switched to SuSE (4.4 -> 6.0) until a
friend convinced me to give Debian a try. Never looked back.
Well, last week I put my new machine into place (also an old Celeron
333, but mind you, I am just a poor little student and rather go out
than spending money on brand new hardware). I put in the new potato
CDs, installed the base system and fetched KDE 2 from tdyc using
apt-get.
Wow! Slink was easy to maintain, but talk about potato. No more
dselect, totally easy network setup, etc. I only had to edit 14 files
in /etc (like fstab, hosts, or X11/XF86Config) to reconfigure the new
system to match my old one.
This evening, I pointed to my sources.list file to woody, and went the
`apt-get update && apt -f dist-upgrade` path. Came back two hours
later, answered some questions, ... and now I am sitting before my brand
new shining woody system.
Easy as pie! Didn't break anything.
Compare this to the hassles I had with SuSE and now have with RedHat
which I have to admin on work.
So, if any of the Debian developers is reading this, I just want to
congratulate you. Keep up your great work, as it is truly appreciated.
Bye now,
Viktor
(Now, if I could only get X to render my TrueType fonts. Darn it, I
knew it was *too* easy! :)
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Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
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