On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:08 +0000, andy wrote: > Hi all > > I'm new to Debian - having run Slackware solidly since 8.1 I have become > used to particular ways of maintaining my machine and also became used > to a certasin belt-&-braces mentality. I loved Slackware, found > tremendous respect for the stable way Pat Volkerding put it together and > maintained it over the years. > So, this is my first venture forth into Debian and using Etch with Gnome > as my DE, with 1Gb RAM, a P4 processor and 200Gb HDD I am feeling well > equipped to ride the obvious and demonstrable pleasures that GNU/Linux > Debian Etch brings the user. This is *so* very cool. Being one who still has a subscription to Slackware, I agree. I have been running Sid (Unstable). For quite a while I have been impressed by the one thing Debian gets right: Install ONCE, incremental update from there on. Unless something catastrophic comes along, you need not re-install, even to re-deploy. > Well done any developers who read this - thanks for building this: this > is a rush!! I love apt-get and how stable the system seems to be, and > responsive too. I am still on a very steep learning curve, so would > welcome anyone's steer in terms of learning how to optimise my system > and good documentation for a Debian-n00b. > > I am seriously impressed with this system and just wanted to introduce > myself. Lots to learn - lots of fun to be had: this is what computing > was meant to be ... > > wheeeeeee .... :D Don't ever let me catch you thinking otherwise... even when thing go wrong with an upgrade. Usually 99.99% of bad happeneing in Debian can be fixed by calmly explaining the problem. There are those fo us here that have literally recovered a Debian machine from a completely lost "/var" partition, to the point where it actually was in better shape than before. I have done it, so has the current Editor in Chief for the "Linux Journal" Nicolas Petreley. Lotsa fun. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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