Nice that you brought this up, I too haven't used debian either. How good is it ?? All I've heard is that its as good as Redhat ! Any Debian users, please shed some light on the topic, I have a couple of server apps (J2EE based), we've already tried Redhat, will Debian make a difference ?
-js $ -----Original Message----- $ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ g] On Behalf Of Ambar Roy $ Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:33 PM $ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Linux-Delhi mailing list $ Subject: Re: [ilugd] Debian CDs ? $ $ $ > If you have a good internet connection you need only $ download the 1st $ > CD. Rest all packages can be installed thru net. Using $ 1st CD itself $ > you can use "bf24" option. This loads $ kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 which $ > has frame buffer support. $ Most people on this list are from delhi! I have not seen many $ places in delhi where you have enough bw to download debian $ packages off the net ( Even a 2mbps link starts to look slow $ when u do that! $ $ Getting packages from an online source is good only if you $ either have a very small total download or if you are on a $ fast link. It is quite nice to see up2date running on a $ computer hosted at a decent datacenter, though! Haven't used $ debian much, so I don't know if debian has some nice offline $ features that I might have missed out on. $ $ Ambar Roy $ $ $ _______________________________________________ $ ilugd mailing list $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd $ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
