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Re: Debian and Fedora



On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:32:06PM -0500, Mingzhai Sun wrote:
>  I am new in debian, actually I never used it. I tried to install once but 
> failed. Now I am using Fedora 2. But I need a more stable system, I don't 
> want to update my system every two days. I need a neat, stable system.
> I need to run matlab 6.1 and labview 6.1. 
>  Please give me some suggestion and reasons whether I should switch to 
> debian. 

I recently gave up on Fedora (after trying to move from RH9) and
switched my machines over to Debian.  What did you try to install?  If
you tried 3.0/woody, you should try installing 3.1/sarge/testing with
the new installer.  It does a much better job of auto-detecting
hardware.  See:

  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

Jason



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