On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 22:28 +0000, Paddy Hackett wrote: > Hi > How is it that when I got a recent Debian Sarge package of the linux > operating system it would not work for me after installation. Yet I had > little problems getting SUSE 10 up and running. > > Paddy Hackett > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Hi Paddy, Probably because Debian is a pretty steep learning curve for Linux Newbies, like me, and perhaps you. I started with Mandrake 7, and have stayed with them ever since, but along the way I have dabbled in Red Hat 8 and 9, suse 9.3, Debian 3, Knoppix, and Slackware 9, Vector Linux and Ubuntu. Gentoo is too daunting for me, but all of these distros suit different people for different reasons. Why does someone wear a plaid jacket and another a purple, and why does a dog lick itself - because he can. In Linux there are a number of varieties and flavours. It seems you are having trouble coming to terms with the rainbow when you have lived in a colourless Windows world. Not everything in Linux has to work in the way you would like. But there are plenty out there that "just work" and Mandriva and SuSe are just two of those. If you want to "lift the hood" and poke around in Debian and Gentoo or "Linux from Scratch" then go for it! But join those mailing lists and ask those questions there. This is not a "general" Linux mailing list, this is for those who are dealing with Evolution, a Personal Information Manager for Linux, in the same way that Lookout is a PIM under Windows. Go back to SuSe, do not worry about Debian, fire up Evolution, set up your email accounts, and if you have any questions about Evolution then this is the place where those questions would be welcome. Cheers Andrew Greig Melbourne, Australia _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
