Re: Learning debian Linux
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On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:32, Davor Balder wrote:
> If you want to learn *linux*, that takes *a lot* of reading. Starting
> from philosophy, the concept, how it is supposed to operate, meaning,
> the zen... And for that, Debian is the best. Painful at times, but if
> it's painful, you don't understand something, so you learn I guess...
Oh, I disagree. If you want to learn the philosophy, the concept, how it is
supposed to operate (whatever that means), meaning, zen, shouldn't you be
doing Linux from Scratch, or one of the "lower level" distros, like Slackware
or Gentoo (not that I've used those two)?
In other distros, you are more or less forced to learn about dependencies (OK,
so program A depends on library B which depends on library C), something that
the Debian user is protected from.
When I left RedHat (around v5.2), I had to deal with different windows
managers. Meaning, I had to learn how to add menues to Enlightenment, GNOME,
KDE, WindowsManager, AfterStep just so that I had access to the same programs
in all the windows managers... and in the process I learned where and how KDE
and GNOME and Enlightenment stored their menu system. In Debian, it had all
been normalized.
And given all that, I would still choose the Linux distribution based on the
person using the system.
> I tried Red Hat when it was 7.2 or something. Upgrades were non-trivial.
I started with RedHat 4.2 or something like that (Linux 2.0.38 I believe), and
the upgrade issue was the reason I moved from RedHat 5.2 to Debian 2.2
> If you want to run linux, enjoy doing it and be part of the community,
> then Debian is your choice.
And I would help you and make you feel welcome even if you choose another
distro, or even a different OS.
> It all depends on what you want to do. But *learning* linux and
> understanding it takes time... And it's not Windows... It's light
> years ahead of it...
Some parts, some parts not.
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John L. Fjellstad____________________________________________________
web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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