Thunder Bear: I shouldn't really have commented on Debian at all, because it's been a *long* time since I've played with it.
FreeBSD should be completely downloaded ... I'll burn the images to disk tonight and give it a shot. Fingers firmly crossed. Speaking of which - has anyone heard anything about the freshly minted Solaris 9? I know it's not Linux, per se, but close enough that it's at least worth bringing up. Or, if this is totally off topic, feel free to flame me in private email. :-) Cheers, -- Mike Helms -----Original Message----- From: Thunder Bear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Opinions on Redmond / Lycoris On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 08:47, Mike Helms wrote: > Every Debian experience I have had thus far has been a bad one. Buggy > installs, buggy bootups, and a horrendous interface that offended all of my > sensitivities. While I would contend that Debian is *not* an example of an easy Linux to install, I wouldn't describe it as buggy (I've only installed it on a couple of x86 boxes and one UltraSPARC). But once it is on, it seems to be very solid. Corel did some great work towards improving the installer and the interface but sadly they dropped off the Linux map. > However, that was also about two years ago. I really should give them > another try - after I try FreeBSD, which I have heard nothing but good > about. If you didn't like the Debian installer, I don't think you'll like FreeBSD any more. The package management in the *BSD's is also nearly non-existant (yes, I've used the poorly named "ports" tree and that is not a package manager). Actually all of the *BSD's are rather... errmmmm... utilitarian in their installers. On the upside it takes about 6 or 7 minutes for me to install OpenBSD on a modern PC because of that. _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
