On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, kwm wrote:
> I have always felt that Debian was a professional Linux
> distribution, more suited towards a user who was well
> versed in setting up and administering a Linux system.
Debian is by far my favorite Linux distribution. It has some shortcomings:
dselect's interface, which - while powerful - is hard to grasp at first and
doesn't offer (imho) good search capabilities (someone is working on deity,
a replacement); it has a lot of packages but is lacking in a lot of them,
and it's hard (or non-intuitive) to find and install "unstable" packages (I
have Gimp .54 on my system and hate it; there is a Debian package for Gimp
.99.14.x but I had to search for it and can't install it via dselect, I have
to use dpkg); I find the documentation a little lacking and the only way to
really get in touch with the Debian folks is to join the Debian-User mailing
list, which is very high traffic; finally, the current state of the Debian
logo (check their logo contest page) is pretty embarassing.
But I don't think any of these problems are serious, and I expect Debian to
keep getting better. That book at linuxpress.com might be a good step in
moving this distro forward.
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