Can't speak to the others, but I've been delighted with debian since moving to it from RH about 3 years ago. It's true that the installation process takes some getting used to, but you can't beat the stability and flexibility. And nightly upgrades, automatically -- it's great.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 23 May 2002, Mike Helms wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
