At 04:02 PM 2/13/2001, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote:
> > Plus it is running on a laptop, which is probably the most obnoxious
> thing to
> > install Linux on in the first place.
>
> Try anything from Compaq...
Try anything from Compaq........and it still doesn't work correctly. As of
lately I have had more compaqs come in for major service. I love
proprietary hardware.
> > I personally think Debian is the easiest to install...
my first 15 installs with debian was a total nightmare. the first 15 times
was in a week span. I couldn't get anything to work...then all of the
sudden it worked. and ever since that night in December when i mastered it
its been a dream on every system since.
> I actually don't dislike Debian as much as my ranting would indicate. In
>the past, the installs have been truly horrid, but things have improved to the
>point where they are only mildly unpleasant. That, and I don't find APT to be
>God's Gift to System Admins the way some people say it is. In other words, it
>doesn't live up to the hype. But then, what does? :)
REDHAT! it never works....ever.....I support debian because their the
opposite of every other distro out there....there's no profit to be
made...so there's no push to get a product out the door....with no push the
take their time and make sure that EVERYTHING works...unlike some distros
that like to package beta compilers with a .0 release :-) BTW - gods gift
to sysadmins are man pages and o-reilly books :-)
> > ... the best part is during the install, you can either select previous,
> > next, alt1 or alt2 (incase you need to do other stuff first, or you
> > already have stuff configured, I know I run mke2fs myself before
> > installing, so its nice that it lets you use an already formatted
> > partition).
>
> FWIW, Red Hat nicely asks you which partitions you want to format before it
>formats them.
so does DOS and windows whats your point ;-)
> > Just thought I would share my ramblings... ;)
>
> Might as well. Everyone else does. ;-)
Scott, (:-)) we all love your ramblings - i think that i speak for a lot of
ppl when i say that the list wouldn't be the same without your snarky and
whitty jabs :-)
~kurth
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