Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM: > For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > > Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. > Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. > > I'd rather learn to fish.
This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking for my first Linux distro. I told a friend I wanted a server distro that wasn't going to spoon feed me, but make me learn something about Linux. Casey, a seasoned Debian sysadmin, recommended I download the Debian net install floppies and do my first install from the mirrors, only a compact base install, and to install everything else I needed by hand with apt. That was Potato with a 2.2 kernel. I only use Linux for non-GUI servers. I don't use desktop Linux. All my admin'ing requires knuckle busting. ;) And I like it that way. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbf9f3f.1040...@hardwarefreak.com