On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > I strongly agree. I have personal convictions that debian is > the higher quality dist, but I cannot reccomend it to the corporation > I work for simply because of the install process and dselect issues. >
The install is actually quite easy in the 2.1 release. Here is what you do when you see the dselect screen: - Choose apt access method - Do the update (get list of available packages) (automatic). - Leave the package selections as they are; don't even fool with the select screen. (no effort here, this is the usual hard part) - Install (automatic). - Quit. So it's all just pressing return, except for answering a couple of questions when you choose the access method. Then, apt-get install any other packages that you want. If you're installing more than one machine it's easy to just make a list of these. Or you can use gnome-apt to install more packages. Long-term maintenance is much *easier* than Red Hat because you can simply apt-get upgrade to get any security fixes, and if you want package foo just apt-get install foo and it will magically be found on the internet and installed. apt-get will also refuse to break the system; this is a good thing. Many Red Hat systems end up every bit as broken as many Windows systems. Havoc