Re: Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-10 Thread Kamil Kisiel
The only significant difference I noticed with Progeny was the installer, though this may have been due to the fact that I simply upgraded my Progeny install to Woody almost right after, and then happily upgraded that to Sid... Speaking of the installer, it's not very good (IMO), especially the

Re: Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-10 Thread elawson
Can anyone give a qualitative analysis on Progeny? It seems a mixed bag to me. I have had it install ok sometimes and then not install other times on same hardware. The package manager is not even close to Stormpkg, and the desktop is quirky at times. In other respects it seems quite nice so

Re: Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-10 Thread Harold Bibik
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:14PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something like: Would anyone recommend Progeny Debian instead? I looked at their web site and it looked good - the matter in question would be - would it be as good for a beginner? Can anyone give a

Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to install, but the mere fact that they ship with a broken compiler that breaks almost anything is not too comforting (I started with RedHat, and I can't forget the

Re: Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread dman
[ wrap you text at around 72 characters, please ] On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:14PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: | I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think | will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to | install, but the mere fact that they

Re: Debian Progeny Debian?

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:56:14PM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: I'm scouting for a Linux distro for a complete newbie who I think will be interested in Linux. RedHat or Mandrake might be easy to install, but the mere fact that they ship with a broken compiler that breaks almost anything