dear ilug members ..Finally a usable (and no circular dependencies ) version of sarge - 8cds (total 14 cds ).. thanx to jj, balakrishnan sir, liju ..
Just thought of sharing with u my experience.. well there were 8 cds.. but the total set has 14 cds i suppose.. the installation is basically the same ncurses type.. but much more simpler.. as jj had stated in his previous mail... there were only very few questions asked... the usual locale,keyboard,language,..partitioning.., bootloader, etc.. sequence were followed and thanks to good hardware detection.. (although not as good as knoppix...) there were no modprobes and insmods.. required... everything was automatic... the base installation finished very quickly... then as usual the ....cd adding process... then finally i installed the most common packages.. there was slight problem .. with X server.. but i modified the XF86config-4 and started up.. the display manager was gdm by default.. and its marvellous.. here are some of the packages .. out the mindblowing collection of packages:: webcam totem amule ,giftui (p2p) gaim firefox :-) gnome 2.6 kde 3.2 apple,nintendo,atari,dos emulators anjuta,glade,qt,screem,bluefish geda (electronics) fetchyahoo cinepaint blender gimp 2 passerpotout inkscape 3d desktop these are some packages i found good.. anyway theres everything for everyone in sarge.. now theres also the open office quickstarter that makes open office start so fast.. and of course "synaptic" a dream come true ..for package management..instead of dselect.. on the whole sarge is stable.. apart from some gnome bugs.. since this is just the snapshot and the freezed version will be all clear.. some user friendliness still missing.. is during the advaced configuration after the base install.. i think the user should first be asked if advanced conf. is required and then proceed... else they get confused also the number of cds being large i think a dvd is best.. and PCQUEST has brought out sarge on dvd in its december issue.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- conclusion:: If you want a distro with all the latest ,stable stuff.. with all the packages.. and with ofcourse some limited eye candy and the sort... i think the best choice is sarge.. so once again i think its debian all the way.. for me and for you.. bye sameer ===== Sameer Mohamed Thahir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
