Re: Few Simple Question
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Francis Pineda wrote:
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> I am currently a computer networking student researching different
> flavours of Unix/Linux. From the advice of my instructor, I have
> shosen to research Debian. He says it's, "Really Cool" I find it
> very appealing and hope to install it as soon as my system is set up.
You probably want to get a real ISP instead of using AOL-BBS to connect,
since there isn't a version of AOL's software for unix at this point.
> 1. What is the user base targeted? Is it simply geared towards the
> home-user looking for a free OS? Or is it geared more towards the
> power-user?
http://web.archive.org/web/20020219041410/http://ursine.dyndns.org/icons/debian/banner_a.gif
This Debian banner used to run on my webpage, archive.org saved a copy.
Debian tries to target everyone.
> 2. Where is Debian located? I understand there are over 800
> distrubuters nationwide that communicate via e-mail and message
> boards. But is there a specific "home" to debian?
I could be wrong, but Debian either doesn't have a physical location or
is based out of the Free Software Foundation in Mass.
> 3. What is the latest Kernel version?
There are about 10 kernels considered "latest," as of this point in
time. Go to http://kernel.org/ to see the latest version numbers.
> 4. What is the default desktop? and what others are included?
None last I checked, but the last time I had to install from scratch was
close to 5 years ago.
> 5. What, if any, office suites are included?
None, if I rememember correctly, at this time. An old version of
staroffice was once included. Staroffice, Openoffice and a number of
other free office apps are easy to drop into place, though.
> Thank You very much and I look forward to joining the wonderful world
> of open source OS!
Woohoo!
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Baloo
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