On Wed 12 Jun 2002 05:01, René Seindal wrote: The many points before this one were well put, and a convincing checklist of why one should use Debian. I'll have to flag that one for later. Good show!
> * Debian packaging is much more complicated than > Slackware's, but also much more powerful. There > is a rather steep learning curve, but once > apprehended, almost everything can be achieved > with just the three programs apt-get(8), > apt-cache(8) and dpkg(8) from a commandline. > Building you own packages is a bit complicated, > but it can be learned in a day if necessary. While it's not exactly learning how the packaging system works, I might not have rolled my own kernel yet, had it not been for the ridiculously easy method of kernel-package. I configured and built the kernel on a much faster machine, packaged the result onto a floppy, and with one dpkg command I was ready to go on the slower target machine. No moving around modules, no messing with LILO. Simply elegant. As for the front end: to coin a phrase, apt may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. That seems a little unfair, though, as sliced bread isn't all that impressive. > numerous fora for user to user communication (email and > web-based), ... You know, this is the first time I have ever seen someone use the plural of "forum". ;) Jeff Bonner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
