hi friends, I don't know who is the Download tux at present. but I may be permitted to Fwd this mail to the list for paying attention of the download tux as well as the members. Siddhartha, hope u r also watching this.
regards. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:34:57 -0800 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:59:49PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: There are numerous, widely varied installation programs (and installation media) for building a Debian box, resulting in very diverse types of systems. Some Debian installation programs (such as the Knoppix, Xandros OS, and Progeny Graphical Installer ones) boot from CD-ROM into a heavily automated graphical installer program that autoprobes and recognises your hardware, and then put a rich desktop system onto your hard drive without asking practically any questions. Some, like the plain-vanilla installer images at ftp.debian.org, deliberately avoid all of those traits, in order to be as flexible a tool as possible. Some, notably the Libranet installer, take a middle course. (Libranet's installer is ncurses = text-box-based, and permits flexible package selection, but asks relatively few questions and creates a very full-featured graphical desktop environment, by default.) But, in fact, if you _are_ looking for the last word in hardware autodetection inside Linux installers, look no further than the Knoppix installer. See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/debian-knoppix http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/debian-knoppix-faq The Debian-stable development track currently has a bit over 10,000 packages in it. The Debian-testing and Debian-unstable tracks (which are more cutting-edge) currently stock a bit over 12,000 packages. All three branches are available for 11 CPU architectures (not just i386), and are maintained by over 1,000 official package maintainers. Centralised administration tools like SuSE's YaST / YaST2 pair are relatively rare in Debian systems. Where present, they're mostly put there by some of the more "desktop"-oriented installers, notably Xandros Desktop OS and Libranet. Cheers, We write precisely We say exactly Rick Moen Since such is our habit in How to do a thing or how [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talking to machines; Every detail works. Excerpt from Prof. Touretzky's decss-haiku.txt @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ -- Jim Dennis ------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
