Re: Initial Debian experience.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:01:26 -0800
GBloomberg <fin.ack@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've installed many different distro's and I found installing Debian
> pretty straight forward but brutally painfull time wise. I've got time
> on my hands so this install was just me trying to get a taste of what
> Debian is like. More than enough info on Debian's site, google, and
> email archives helped me through error after error at different phases
> of the initial install of the so called "Stable" release. Thank
> I'm not on dialup anymore. The only other distro that I've found
> similarly painfull to install was FreeBSD and that was without errors.
> Heh.
>
> So far I'm fairly pleased as I know that learning the in's and outs of
> any distro takes time. No worries. So far out of the 3 distrobutions
> (FreeBSD, Debain "Woody", and "Gentoo") that I've installed I've found
> Gentoo to take the cake so far. But since I have 3 machines I will be
> keeping Debian around to get a better feel. Thanks to all who
> contribute your time and efffort in maintaining the Debian distro.
You ought to try the new Debian-Installer that will be used when Sarge
is released. Sarge is stable enough that a lot of users have already
switched to it.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
It's much easier, much better, much newer, etc.
HTH,
Jacob
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