geoff wrote: > I am considering getting a copy of the new Debian 3.0 release, but I > understand that they > use "deb" rather than "rpm" for package installation. > > Please can anyone on the list who has made the transition from rpm to deb > tell me > how they got on ? Is the deb system as easy and as convenient as rpm ?
I found rpm to be easy and convenient for about one month... After two years with it I can't bare with it any more. This is the main reason for my own switch to Debian. I find slackwares tgz format to be much more convenient and easy to use than rpm. I'm not qualified to answer this question yet, but I think that you will find more persons that are if you go to www.debian.org, and subscribe to the mailing list: debian-user. A warning is in place here: The Debian User Mailing list has a huge throughput ( 300 articles a day per mimimum or so ) This question does however come up very often there, so I think you will probably find more, and better answers by looking through the mailing list archives at www.debian.org I think though that the most difficult problem with switching from RPM based to Debian is finding a good Debian CD retailer nearby. kind regards, Daniel Mose - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
