Ok Seth + Mike and you other Debian users
I went out and bought a copy of Debian GNU/Linux for $19.99 at
SoftwareETC. It's a good deal you get an O'Reilly book "Learning Debian
GNU/Linux" by Bill McCarty. I felt like I couldn't wait until next week.
It was bundled by VA Linux.
Ok, I got it installed. I don't think it was as good as install as some
other distributions. I'm thinking the strength is once you have it
installed you can us apt-get to get files from the net. The one thing it
doesn't come with is kde. I used kde for most of my stuff. I know
there's a way to get it.
The one thing I tried is modprobe -a tuner and it doesn't look like Debian
put that in their modules. That loads all the stuff for kwintv or xawtv
for my TV card. I have to have this. Watching TV while on your computer
is awsome.
I was able to connect with wvdial but the couldn't connect to anything
because it couldn't find a name server. I'll figure this one out I hope.
I'd also like to get the gnome package up and running. I didn't know what
installation to us so I used Work_std. I used dselect after that to get
more packages. Once I get my connection going I can us the apt-get
command.
I did like how the window managers looked. There was real slick
background in windowmaker. I just have to find out if apt-get can get
more themes too.
Does linuxconf work in Debian or is there another configuration tool like
yast or linuxconf.
BTW, they had one more copy of it over there. The book is more than half
the cost of the package.
Let me know about some packages to pickup.
Tim
