On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:08:34 +0530, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:19 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> I have to say this -- clear the thought of Debian being a geeks-only
>> distro from your mind and give it a serious try. There is little
>> difference between Debian and Ubuntu once it is installed. Here's a
> Look, for a person who has known the UNIX / Linux environment in his
> entire life, Debian is a nightmare. I'm not talking usagewise but I'm
> talking with reference to installation and maintenance.
Really? I just installed Debian on a new dell laptop. The
installer allows me to have one boot partition; and the rest is
encrypted. On the encrypted volume, the installer allowed me to
configure LVM -- including a logical volume for swap. It discovered
that I had a dell partition, a windows partition, and configured that
into grub. The machine rebooted fine (decryption and all), and uses
hibernate to suspend itself -- all within an hour or so.
It has the standard X setup, including nvidia non-free
drivers, bind, emacs -- mostly using the chicken peck installation (hit
enter until it stops asking you questions).
Apart from the download time, I barely paid any attention to the
install (apart from partitioning the disk).
This is a standard dell precision m90 box, and so far, I have
had to do _nothing_ special.
manoj
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