On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:14, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Brian Beck wrote: > > Maybe I ought to try to set up Debian again. If only I could figure it > > out. > > I recommend Debian. KDE has their own debian packages that you can add > to your sources.list. Check out <http://www.kde.org/download/>. > Personally I recommend woody (stable), a lot of packages are a bit old, > but I tried the testing version and I couldn't get the danged new > installer to work properly. It really upset me, it's like they decided > to take a huge step back.
I'm afraid I can't recommend Debian. I've used debian on various platforms, and I must say that I find debian to be extremely unpolished. True you can run KDE 3.1 or Gnome 2.2. on it, but underneath, I just find much to be desired. The unpolishedness of debian is really shows in the initscripts and configuration methods for things like network and X. There are 2 advantages to debian that I see. One is the ability to apt-get (from a huge network of official sites and packages) and the other is the ability to to have a consistant distro that runs on any platform linux has been ported to. SuSE and Redhat both now can use apt-get, so the first advantage isn't so big anymore. Now if debian adopted some of the niceties of redhat's initscripts (like common functions for recording pid, displaying pass/fail, etc) which I think are SysV-isms, made the runlevels more useful (debian runs in runlevel 2, with or without X. Why not take advantage of the runlevel separation without forcing me to do it myself), and adopted a similar network configuration setup to redhat, then debian truly would be the best distro out there mainly because of the platforms it runs on. Now I could set modify everything myself and make it work like RedHat, but then every time I added a new package that had an init script, it would be all messed up. Anyway, you probably can apt-get distupgrade to 8.2 if you change your apt sources.list file to point to the newer packages. -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
