On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Bates wrote: > Debian has two beautiful aspects (speaking as a refugee from NT and > RedHat): it is very conservative and hence very stable;
agreed -- this is why I have been using it since 1996 > and apt-get install > is one of the neatest ideas I've seen. likewise -- this is the biggest plus point Debian has for me. > I've only been using Debian GNU/Linux for a couple of months and early on I > tried to do a dist-upgrade or similar. -- I've been doing a dist-upgrade every night for the last eighteen months. Any problems have been really minimal. I *trust* it. > As regards packages which are imporant but which may not be *Debianized*, I > put things like Java, Star Office and Adobe Acrobat in /opt. Which is where mine were. Didn't stop StarOffice from being nuked, tho. > I mention this because Martin seems to have lost things like > SGML DTDs which should never have been placed in unsafe locations. No -- didn't lose *any* DTDs. (They're safely catalogued.) Mainly lost apps and above all, configuration files for apps. No idea why the configuration files & directories seemed to be so badly nuked. > Final thought, are these Debain tools suitable for business users? Yes. (Professional sysadmins love 'em. Trainee sysadmins really appreciate the ease of upgrade -- once they've fought with a couple of non-installable RPMs, that is. Workstation *users* should never see them.) > Should > any business auto-update anything? Probably not, certainly not on a > critical system. *Definitely* not on critical systems. Stable only; and nothing else. (I just had a hankering to try testing, is all. <SIGH>) > Businesses should use stable + security updates + > upgrading key software only if it provides vital features. Absolutely. -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ - Share your knowledge. It's one way to achieve immortality. -