Hi there, I'm a long-time user of Linux, mostly Slackware. This is my first Debian installation, I'm trying it out on an AMD64 system.
Largely thanks to outdated and unclear documentation - if I were a real newbie I'd be in serious trouble by now - it's been hard going thus far. Apart from a couple of hiccups with X it's performed well enough, and I'll persevere until I've beaten it into submission. I'm very happy to submit documentation patches. Here is the thing that's caused me most grief: In http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html#s-sources.list (which seems to have been updated last in August 2005) I see in section 2.1 "We usually find the following in the default Debian sources.list: # See sources.list(5) for more information, especially # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free ..." In the latest release (Etch) $ man sources.list still mentions non-us in several places. Since 'non-US' was apparently made obsolete some time ago, this is misleading. 73, Ged. PS: How come emacs isn't installed by default?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
