Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think beginners should stay away from the godawful Debian dselect :P
Amen. I hated it when I started out, and I still don't like it. I find aptitude better - + to install, _ to purge, g for "go". Plus I get my nice little categories, too. Most things have help. Try ? . =) Seriously, though, Debian... isn't... really... a... newbie thing. I'd have probably run off screaming if I had tried it out as my first distro. =) That said, I find Debian installs rather painless these days. I usually do a floppy+net install (netbooted this one as I didn't have any external drives), select the barest minimum I can get away with, and then just apt-get stuff I like. (emacs21, and.. well... what else do I need? ;) Kidding.) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ateneo CS faculty geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
