Hi, I thought I'd just throw in that I have used both Red Hat (5.0 ->) and SuSE (5.1 ->) and am mightily impressed by The Debian Experience. The install process is rather rough, I'll admit. I just pick the installation type from the "custom" menu on the Slink disk and grit my teeth as dselect does its work. Am I the only one that finds dselect to be a horrible package manager to work with?
Once it's installed, though, Debian works beautifully. I run bleeding-edge Potato (weekly updates) and have run into only minor problems (suid su, &[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/ppp permissions) so far. Apt is a wonderful tool, and Gnome-Apt completes the package. One question: How do I point Apt at something else besides an http connection? I'd like to use it on CD-ROM images, if possible. Dpkg would take forever to use and, as I've said before, I hate dselect. As for sound, I must say that I've had a few problems with it. Of course, I had similar problems in previous versions of RH... Go fig. Anyway, once you've compiled in the kernel modules that you'll need, try this: Grab an rpm of RH's sndconfig, alien it over to a .deb, and install it. I used it, and it worked the first time (SB AWE-64 PNP). Is there a comparable Debian tool that I've been missing? Anyway, I just thought I'd share :-) Keep up the good work! I am currently working on getting my local RH-dominated LUG to convert :-) -Chris
