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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
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).
imo the text based installer of debian works great. but expect "easy" or crappy graphics installers when woody comes out: http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/ I did try a beta text woody bootdisk, and there is some cool framebuffer thing going on, which is nice.
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.
kde3 is a complicated matter. All things GNU take a higher priority, but I have been using kde3 BETA debs for a while now. And they seem fine. The main reason why it is not out is because of the X 4.2 issue I believe. Complicated, but just chill... =)
~ Theo, the debian whore.
debian++ I wrote a little tips page today, which some people might like. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hendry/content/tips.shtml I have been subscribed to this list before, except I could not handle the spam until i had a nice mutt/procmail setup. =) I live (or my parents have retired) nr. Cardinham in the Bodmin area. I will be home for the summer, I hope to attend a linux event while I am there. Also as I am usually bored out of my little mind while at home, if there is any little summer jobs in the area let me know, I would be glad to help out. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hendry/cv/ Regards, -Kai Hendry
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