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From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: New install and newbie questions
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:00:32 -0700
"Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So I should 1) Add the 14 CD's and the two update CD's via "apt-cdrom
add",
2) activate all sources in Synaptic, 3) run "apt-get update" and "apt-get
upgrade" and I'll have an up-to-date system.
You need at least:
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
and something like this (should have been added during the base-config)
deb ftp://ftp.your-mirror.org/debian stable main
These are present.
With this you can keep your system up to date if you regularly do 'apt-get
update' 'apt-get upgrade'
Should this update very few packages if the download is one week old?
What download? The CD's? Do you have r0 or r1 CD's? If you have r1 than
the update should be minimal.
Answers the question. Sarge r1 is identified as the most recent stable
release, and that's what took all weekend to download. I also did my first
reinstall and watchd it closely. The install process slipstreamed the
updates through what was at that point a live DSL network connection.
[snip]
I'm also assuming the separation between end user and administrator is
enforced by the separation between GUI and CLI.
No. Any user (in the default install) can press Ctrl-Alt-F1(-F6) to login
at the console. Or open an xterm, which is almost the same. Root can run X
as well. And there are many GUI tools to configure your system, that can
be started/used by any user who has the root password. This is true for
most if not all distros.
But the EU is accustomed and expecting a GUI. Without it, s/he needs
further education or training after getting under the hood.
This will be fun. If I can reproduce/document a successful installation,
a
fair number of GUI's for the end user are available, the installation and
desktop is stable, and I have direct access to a broad library of
software
that can be installed on the fly, then I have a distribution of Linux I
can
work with. Mandrake has been averaging about one stable install each
three
major versions, and that's the closest I come to a desktop with lots of
different GUI's.
The 'stable' release is rock solid. It's the recommended release for
production systems
Which is what I need at this point - stability.
.
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