On Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:45, Michael J McGonagle wrote: > ... > So, I have been considereing changing from using Mandrake (currently > using 8.0) to using Debian. Does anyone have a success/horror stories > from using Debian? How does their package installation utility compare > to RPM?
I'm a biggoted Debian user but I'd say there is no comparison, apt-get is one of the finest and most rewarding pieces of software I know of. Using the latest "unstable" distribution is actually quite stable 99% of the time and dependencies for nearly any situation are also right 99% of the time. The main problem with it is getting it installed for the first time because there are so few commercial (or not) CDs. One option is to try the boot and root boot-floppies here and do a network install... http://www.debian.org/CD/ http://www.debian.org/distrib/floppyinst If you have Mandrake up and running then you could try out Debian by using this tarball and chroot'ing into it while connected to the net... http://www.netserva.com/sw.php The worst I can say about Debian is it's not 100% perfect ! --markc
