On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:47:07 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of > installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are > limited, wouldn't have to care too much about it. > > Only a "tiny" problem remains. Potato is not up to date and it's > apparently > difficult to upgrade software unless you get patches at specialised > places > ( http://kde.tdyc.com for the KDE 2.x serie, for instance. ) You then > must > hope the patch is well done. > > We though about installing Woody, but, as you people know, the boot > disquettes don't boot yet. Potato must first be installed and an upgrade > made to Woody. Newbies might not appreciate... > As for Woody, once again, it's going to be out... when it's ready, which > might as well mean in June 2002, one year after Slack was out. >
As a pretty much newbie, going from potato to unstable (I definitely fit in the BTW below!) was not a problem; in fact, IMO understanding /etc/apt/sources.list is the first step a newbie should make on debian. I got absolutely nowhere until I got a grasp of that file and it's implications. <snip> > > Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? We do plan to teach the newbie > some fundamentals. > > BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge... > even more so than oldies I'd say : ) >
