Re: What if I choose install text-based mode than X?
在 2013年8月22日星期四UTC+8下午6时50分01秒，Ralf Mardorf写道：
> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 19:41 -0700, 郭靖 wrote:
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> > I've burned a Live CD, and I tried it on VirtualBox, it looked fine
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> > but I chose the wrong place for GRUB, at last it didn't run well.
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> More information is needed to comment this.
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> > is Synaptic different from apt-get? Which of them has more softwares?
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> Both use the same list of repositories, so the same software is
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> > mc looks fine and I may tried out.
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> mcedit is the command to access it's editor directly and
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> mcedit /path/to/file/foo will open the editor and a file directly. nano
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> is another easy to use editor, but you should know the basics how to use
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> vi, or vim, since those are the editors that usually are separated from
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> the rest of the userspace and available if everything should be broken
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> on UNIX like systems.
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> If you want to learn Linux this way I would recommend to use another
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> distro, but this are only my 2 cents. I for example prefer Arch over
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> Debian. Beside the repositories that provide binaries Arch comes with a
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> build system similar to FreeBSD ports, packages neither for this build
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> system, nor for the binaries are split, as they are for Debian. Arch
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> packages follow upstream, IOW a lib will not get a separated package,
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> headers don't get separated packages too. Building packages for Arch is
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> much easier than doing it for Debian. The _real_ rolling release model
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> of Arch does provide latest _stable_ software, so if you want to develop
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> using a lot of new stuff from git, svn etc., you wouldn't run that easy
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> into issues, as you'll do when using Debian.
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> > If I dual-boot Debian on my MBP, then install rEFIt, would it be fine?
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> I don't know.
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> https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook/DebianInstallTutorial
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> https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook
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> http://codylittlewood.com/arch-linux-on-macbook-pro-installation/
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> > And can I send and/or receive mailing list or emails, and talk on IRC
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> > channels?
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> You are already doing it ;), but yes you can do it using Linux too :).
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> Regards,
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> Ralf
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I think you misunderstood, mc here means Midnight Commander, a file manager.
Arch has been considered before, but I don't have a great knowledge on Linux, hence I don't think it a nice idea to do so.
BTW, I mean can I use IRC on text-based OS?
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