On Saturday 11 September 2004 23:36, Anil Kulkarni wrote: > hello every1, > i have been a newbee in linux & also on this grp, > i c lot of events and meetings being organised, but from a > newbeis point of view i would like to suggest u ppl to keep an > seminar or a small workshop abt GNU/Linux....especially abt > switching onto "Debian" from other linux distribution
Debian is as easy to install as any other. But ofcourse it works best if you understand a few things about your hardware and your software needs. The simplest method is to read the installation howto at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install Quite comprehensive. Ask questions after u have read that. Debian can be installed on at least 11 archs and in umpteen permutations (from a 1.44mb floppy to a large cluster of load balancing fault tolerant server farm). If a desktop is all u require go with knoppix, which is based on debian and requires u to type "hdinstall" at the bash command prompt. And best of all Debian is built based on policies decided by the user and developer community - no arbitary shifts and funny patches to make u their slave for life. > i mean the installation GUI of other distributions like RH & > Mandrake r very user friendly, but thats not the case with debian, > and especially for a newbee its very difficult. Yeah as long as u want sombody else to do the hardwork. > There are lot of guys out there want to learn debian, > unfortunately today in all classes they teach RH, its like "Linux = > RH", moreover there r very few books or almost 'none' available in > book stalls regarding debian, and its not possible for all ppl to > just log onto net and read ebooks. Dont think of using Debian without having a good net connection. Infact a desktop computer is nothing more than a glorified electronic typewriter without the internet. > So i strongly feel that there shd be some event organised abt > starting/learning debian.....and other such isuues which could be > difficult for a newbee to configure on debian..I know that > "Knoppix" could be a nice solution for this but still lets try to > learn the typical debian way.... The typical way with GNU/Linux is self help. So go to that url and read. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
