On 14/11/2007, Web Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I installed Debian 4 Etch on my PC. Earlier time I have got many mail, where > the writer said: my linux (Mandriva, SuSE, Fedora, etc) is not a serious > operating system.
Congratulations. Though I'd like to distance myself from arguments which consist on putting down other distributions. > > Now I am working on Debian I tried the apt-get install (remove, as so on) > command, the dpkg command, and the synaptic package manager software. > > What is the other advantage of this OS? On top of what Kfir wrote (or to expand on what he probably meant by "mature OS") I'd like to put the focus on the huge and very well-integrated software repository. Unlike the little I've seen in other distro's, Debian's "stable" (and to a large part "testing") doesn't contain packages just because someone felt like dreating them and dump them into the depot, but there is an entire process of deciding what goes where and how packages should interact with each other. So you don't only get good tools to manipulate packages (yum seems to be going a decent job for CentOS 5), but also the repository is more coherent as a whole and therefore much more useful when used via tools like aptitude and friends. Enjoy your new installation. --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
