On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > As someone who has recently come to use Debian from a year or two of > RedHat experience, I can say that the non-X-based nature of dselect can > be a distinct advantage when you're trying to configure a server machine and if the dselect process shuts down your X server ;) (happened once...) i agree, but as i installed several machines, i found the given profiles quite useless, and had to parse by hand all the package lists... a more evoluted interface with submenues instead of the actual subframes would really be nice even for text-terminals...
> CDROM? dselect was quite FTP-friendly; I couldn't get a RedHat can't install debian through ftp, or did i miss something somewhere??? the base package has to be installed through disquettes, CDROM, HD or NFS but no ftp! and that's not kind... i was used to flip a single floppy into the machines to isntall, and that is grown hard now that i use debian, due to the lack of support of ftp.... once its installed its fine, but the installation is a pain (and i now have installed approx 60 debian systems...) > Debian saw all my hardware right first try. that's true, and a point i like very much. > And another thing: a lot of those X-based configuration things don't > work that well. I know that for sure... ;-) yep, for one i do notlike control-panel.... but... > So far, Debian seems to me like a workhorse: it may not be flashy, but > everything just *works*. That beats flash every time in my book. sure ... but.... > STING (Stuff That Is Not GNU). It *is* a sting when it doesn't work > right and you want to change it... agreed.. > And is it just me, or is everybody and his mother putting out RPMs these > days, some of very shoddy quality? I have the impression, if it's a deb seemed to me too... > Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. Especially hearing folks > bitch about dselect. I just hope apt is as good. (It's not X-based, is > it? Say it's not...) you may continue use dselect with it ;) AFAIK there will be interfaces for each taste .... finally i begun to notice all the utilities for sysadmin that are present in debian, what i would like to see, is a smit sort of application, that regroups under one starting application invocation points for all present configuration scripts (e.g. update-*) with eventually ready forms for the required data (each time i use update-alternatives i have to read the man....) and such a thing should be first vt-compatible, with an eventual X-GUI.... I never looked into vt-controls through perl, is there a way to make this nice blue&red fullscreen windows with perl? ciao bboett ============================================================== acount at earthling net http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== Unsolicited commercial email is NOT welcome at this email address To contact me replace acount by bboett in above addresses
