> ewww. that's distressing to hear.
Yeah, I know.
> that's cool that will smith uses linux. i wasn't aware of that. it'd be
> great if we could convert samuel jackson... (sorry, samuel L. jackson).
Heh, Will Smith is a member of the group. I wasn't talking about the
famous one.
> however cool rpm's are, debs are way cooler. easier to install packages
> when you have a net connection. no hunting for stuff on rpmfind.
Doesn't Debian also have a feature to automagically update things? That
would be nice, if Esparto ever got broadband.
> you have way more control over how things get installed.
That's what I like!
> > but as much as
> > Mandrake pisses me off with all of it's "I'm gonna do this for you, and
> > not tell you how I did it" bullcrap, I'm willing to switch. Then on the
> > other hand, Will was telling me you have to set up EVERYTHING by hand in
> > Debian,
>
> i think debian gets a bad rap about that. there are a few nice utilities
> that redhat/mandrake have, like netcfg, printtool and sndcfg. a couple have
> been ported to debian (printool has been ported to the lprng project).
> but frankly, it's better to know how to do things by hand. these programs do
> fail (the zworld machine was identified by sndcfg as having a soundblaster
> live when it really is a pci-128).
>
> and really, how hard is it to add the string "es1371" to /etc/modules anyhow?
I don't really mind doing things by hand if I know what I'm doing. When
I have to find/read a bunch of different manuals to get one thing done,
I started to get pissed. (I think you know why)
> the potato installer really isn't all that bad. i've heard the woody
> installer will be great.
Is Woody in the library? I saw some talk about it on vox, but didn't
really follow it. Maybe I should get in line to get it.
> > Maybe one of you Debian fans can persuade me?
>
> i'll give you a hundred bucks if you can compile your kernel.
Seriously?
> pete
>
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