Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:47, csj wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:14:38 +0200,
> Manrtin Jungowski wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote:
> > > > David Palmer. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say
> > > > RedHat, that's where I started. RedHat 9 has a great
> > > > installer and contains anything a normal user will ever
> > > > need, including OpenOffice.Org.
> > >
> > > Gak! And send him into Dependency Hell?
>
> What dependency hell are you talking about? Dependency hell only
> happens when you want to install third-party applications. For
> most people that would probably be only MPlayer or Xine (because
> of the DVD and mp3 embargo), and the developers of these programs
> have well-packaged RPMs (This is just from what I've read on
> their lists).
>
> > Exactly. RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake may be great and easy to install
> > - but that's about it.
I tried to upgrade Mandrake 8.0 from KDE 2.2.1 to 2.2.2, using Mdk's
own RPMs (and SRPMs, for that matter). It never would work, even
after I went as far as de-installing XFree.
> I don't know about SuSE, But RedHat and Mandrake are a great way
> to introduce Joe Average to the Linux revolution. For everybody
> else, however, Debian.
Libranet.
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