On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: [ Thinking of a Caldera -> Debian switch ] > FreeBSD has an excellent package management system and it would be right up > my alley. The problem is that it's BSD and that's not the direction I want > to go in. So, I'm looking at the debian distribution. I've tried debian > before and now I have a 1.3.1 CD. Dselect is very impressive.
If you like dselect, the rest should be easy. The developers are trying to put together a program, code named deity, that will replace dselect. It should have a much better interface. > Now for the tough part. :-) > > I want to be able to use some of the things I've grown used to with > Caldera. In particular, LISA (Linux Installation and System Adminstration) > is a life-saver. It allows me to easily change hardware and network > settings. I'm not unix savvy enough at this point to know where to do this > without LISA. (I'm also lazy and like being able to do everything from one > utility.) This one is questionable. It depends on how this program is implemented as to wheter or not you can just copy it. It may put files in different places and configure the network a different way than debian does. > I also use Star Office and Applixware. How well will those work with > debian? They're distributed as rpm packages. How about Netscape Fastrack > Server? I installed the Star Office tarball's with little trouble. The only catch is that exporting the LANG variable to us will cause some problems. I simply made a shell script that sets this variable. The problem occurs when perl starts up expecting LANG to be something in /usr/share/locale/. I've heard good reports from Applixware but didn't feel like spending the money (rpm's can be installed with alien instead of dpkg or dselect). I doubt you'd have problems with netscape's server. > Another area that seems to be troublesome is Accelerated-X. I use it > because it is more stable for me than XFree86. I couldn't even get Xsetup > to run, but then read about the termcap-compatibility package and installed > that. That let Xsetup run, but the X-server quits with a connection error > or it complains that it can't find the "fixed" font. Has anyone had any > luck with Accelerated-X and debian? I haven't tried. Perhaps a) you haven't installed any fonts, or b) you're fonts are compressed, but Accel-X wants them uncompressed. > I'd basically like to run a debian system, yet use selected pieces from > Caldera. Can anyone offer any tips on how best to do this? An understandable goal. However, in the long run, I'd suggest working your way off of the non-debian way of doing certain things. The more you use debian, the easier it is to get help from the list, and aviod conflicts with non-debian programs (LISA for example). Good luck, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
