-----Message d'origine----- De: N. Raghavendra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: mercredi 10 mai 2000 9:23 A: debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet: Help on Debian advocacy
Hello everybody, I work in a place where there is a network of about 60 pcs mostly running Slackware Linux. A year ago a couple of friends and I installed Debian (Hamm) on the PCs in our offices, and have been happily using it since then. I want to advocate the use of Debian in the computer centre here. Since I use Hamm, and am very far away from the current versions of Debian, I would appreciate any info/pointers on the following questions: 1) How stable is Debian Potato? Can it be installed safely on all the servers and macchines in an office network? Ditto ditto for Debian Woody? [Van Buggenhaut Eric] potato isn't stable, it's "frozen". I use it happily here. Woody isn't stable, it's under current development, if u install it, u'll get into trouble. 2) Are Potato CD's available in the market? If so what version of the Linux kernel do they ship with? [Van Buggenhaut Eric] Since potato isn't "stable" yet, no CD's have been released yet. Read Debian doc if you want to know about the criteria for "stable" or "frozen". They're really strict and that explains why slink, the current "stable" version uses kernel 2.0.38. Although Debian doesn't release potato as stable yet, many other companies would do it 'cause it is already stable, but Debian has very high criteria. 3) There are about 30 public machines in the computer center here, all sharing a common file system through NFS, and all of them YP clients. If they install Debian on all these machines, how difficult would it be for sysadmins to periodically upgrade to a more recent kernel in all of them? Can it be done at one go, or do they have to upgrade the kernel in each machine searately? [Van Buggenhaut Eric] Debian upgrades are made through an app called "apt-get". Keeping your system up-to-date means typing *2* command lines :-) Debian is famous for this functionality. foo# apt-get update foo# apt-get upgrade And that's it ! 4) How does Debian compare with SuSE and Redhat with respect to the number and nature of packages in the distribution? I am quite satisfied with the 1500 or so packages in Hamm main, but the establishment guys here say that they want a distro with as many packages as possible. [Van Buggenhaut Eric] Debian ships with 2500 packages, i think 5) Are there any Debian advocacy pages on the web, which I can use to convince people here? [Van Buggenhaut Eric] Check debian website, www.debian.org Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance. Regards, Raghavendra. _______________________________________________________________ N. Raghavendra, Mehta Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India. Fax: 91-532-667576; Phone: 667511*2020 (O) 667511*4020 (H) --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null