Re: Debian: A noob query
2011/11/24 Sam Vagni <sam.vagni@gmail.com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to
> know if Debian is good to go with and learn then?
Debian has a large community and a great development, testing and
packaging organization. Ubuntu is great too by the way, maybe easier
for some point at the beginning.
And have apt which is a very good friend for user :)
>
> Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its'
> non-compatibility with the newest hardware and not having latest
> technology, is it a myth?
Yes and no. Depending on the debian version you're using newest
hardware could require newest version of kernel. But compiling kernel
in debian is not so hard ;)
Further, I hope I can use easily Flash,
> Java, etc.. if Firefox if I install and go with Debian....
All of that are available on Debian (I'm using It) but sometimes the
name (the project) is not the same firefox ---> ice weasel
But to answer directly, yes debian is a good start because, in my
opinion apt make the difference, the package manager is so useful. Try
do install a vm with the squeeze net install cd
http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst and feel free to get some help
here anytime. Happy to help a new debian user.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions,
> SAM
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