I had a need for a small VM at my last job, for SSH forwarding. I bounced around between a few different distros, but I really liked both Mint and Crunchbang. I think it's likely I'd go with one of them if I were to build a Linux desktop/laptop.
And this is coming from someone with a lot more RedHat/CentOS experience than with the Debian derivatives. Rich On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:50 AM Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote: > "It is usually, except in SuSE flavors (and we also used SLES at oldjob), > pretty easy to match up > rpms to a redhat version and more difficult in a debian or ubuntu > environment. > Both package management environments aren't the best (apt-/dpkg vs > yum/rpm), though I think redhat gets the tip because apt-cache and dpkg > --get-selections are just weird to anyone not used to > them." > > When Debian is installed it's configured to point to the specific > repository for that release, such as Wheezy, which I'm currently running. > So every package I can see in the repository is a Wheezy package. > > It also seems that maybe you don't understand the Debian pkg mgmt system > very well. There isn't a "dpkg --get" command, there's however "dpkg -i" > which is similar to the "rpm -i" command to install a specific package and > manually deal with any dependencies. > > "apt" is akin to "yum" in that it will attempt to install the package and > any dependencies. "Apt-get" is the command you were thinking of. Aptitude > provides more pkg. mgmt intelligence than "apt" and is the officially > sanctioned package manager, which you didn't mention. > > "apt-cache" is for searching through the apt software package cache and > getting package info. I rarely use it. > > For me, the pkg mgmt system played a huge factor in my distro choice. The > APT package mgmt system and all its tools make so much sense to me. are so > easy to use and useful. > > Crunchbang (Debian Wheezy w. Openbox) runs in less than a 150 MB and that > makes me squeal w. joy! > > I guess that's what makes Linux so great, there's a flavor for everyone. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
