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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 19 May 2002 6:46 pm, kevin bailey wrote:
another thing to note - the previous replies were from steve and theo - and both use linux in business enviroments.
Yup - lots of linux servers, and luckily only 6 windows boxes, powering a whole ISP... andthe windows bit is only for muppetws who like ASP and <irghghgh> frontpage (RUN! RUN! RUN!) on servers.. If you count desktops too, make it 7 windows, everyone else runs debian on desktop aswell now except a web designer ;)
overall i'd say debian is a very clean distro - the installers may be better for mandrake/SUSE/RH - but once you know which module to use with which hardware device debian installs ok,
sadly debian does lack a *really* good "easy" installer, but because it's text based it makes installing over the network a lot easier (though i belive most dists have a text based installer? rh used too), i've found installing mandrake on scarly large boxes makes it squeal a bit, debian breases (sp) through. Most dists also fail if the box is headless - debian seems ot work fine (slackware works, too). Another good thing about debian is the size of a default install. Last time I tried a "server" install on mandrake it wanted to chew through 3GB of disk space with packages - somewhat of a security nightmare when auditing boxes... debians default base install is only ~ 50mb However, as a desktop, debian does lack some qualities - kde3 still isn't out on packages, but thats partly because of what kevin mentioned, things are tested over and over before they get anywhere near "general" public packages. I've been compiling from cvs for kde3 because the packages are still a fair way off being ready... As a server though, you can be sure packages are always stable, even if a version behind upstream sources. As for debian packaging system, well: wobble:~# apt-get help apt 0.5.4 for linux i386 compiled on Aug 19 2001 01:02:26 *snip spam* --->> This APT has Super Cow Powers. <<--- says it all really ;) ~ Theo, the debian whore. - -- Theo Zourzouvillys http://zozo.org.uk/ Q: What do little WASPs want to be when they grow up? A: The very best person they can possibly be. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85/AM448CrwpTn6YRArTtAJ9qyc9Avc+Z9mvBP5j1RORUzwssjwCfYef9 NMJngiB5jdyBBxcPiIjaf78= =6YY4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.