On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:36:05PM +0000, pete atkinson wrote: > I would appreciate some tips... > > I have been running SuSE in various releases for the last 3 years and like(d) > to think I had a good grasp of what was going on. > > In an effort to expand my knowledge, I have commandeered a spare box that I > have and have chosen 'Potato' as my first Debian distribution. (It is a 400 > Celeron, 8Gb Disk, 512Mb RAM, Nvidia TNT2 graphics, Realtek NIC (no sound > card) and an old IBM SVGA monitor - which will be replaced when funds allow) > > Boy ! what a difference - I am plodding through various HOWTO's and have > configured my display and network card successfully (big deal some might say > !) but the thing that is getting me is the whole culture change between the > relatively spoon fed SuSE and the somewhat (to me) esoteric Debian. > > Are there any hints/tips/watch-out-fors that you could offer, principally, I > am a bit confused over the non-RPMness of packages and the lack of the config > suites such as YAST/YAST2 that SusE employs. > > I hope you can help and apologise if this seems a woolly request > I started Linux with Slackware but immidiately moved to Redhat when I founf out V5 came to my notice. Anyway, Debian is tougher than RPM Linux system.
I suggest you to read some basic debian documentations including developer ones, release notes and install manuals. http://www.debian.org/doc http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp Oh, I hope mu web page below may help too. Cheers :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
