I have been experimenting with both. I didn't feel comfortable with SuSE,
for reasons I can only put down to "personal", not rational. It seemed to
take control away. OTOH, I like Mandrake, which does absolutely everything
for you.
After some initial stumbles with Debian, I really like it and I can see me
using it on production machines (currently RH) some time very soon.
Apt-get is as good as they say it is, although not initially intuative.
Every thing is very tidy. The downside is that you have to put far more
thought into installation, but then in the end that turns out to be "a
good thing". It does annoying things like not installing pine or pico
(some licencing issue?), but that is pretty minor. Thanks Craig for being
such an advocate ;-)
My initial thought is that Debian would be far better suited to server,
SuSe to desktop, but I would be interested in other better informed
opinion on that.
David
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, DaZZa wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Tony Green wrote:
>
> > * John Ryland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > SuSE comes on a bootable DVD that works (and on CDs) so you stick the disc
> > > in, and a small time later you have *everything* installed.
> > The point here is *everything* - it tried to install over 4GB of data onto
> > my laptop! The installer [wasn't|isn't] very selective. I moved to Deb
> > and haven't looked back!
>
> Coulda fooled me.
>
> I selected "Install Everything" from SuSE 7.0 then removed the packages I didn't
> want from the staggering selection offered.
>
> I ended up with an install of just over 2 gig which included everything I wanted,
> and nothing I didn't.
>
> A case of not reading the screen properly, I suspect.
>
> DaZZa
>
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