From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Re: Most "HAM" friendly distro ? Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:15:37 +1100 Message-ID: <20060106131537.GA16382@cloud.net.au> References: <9923fd660601041255o4e45fd5dw572a79848c1781ff@mail.gmail.com> <20060104234631.GA20864@cloud.net.au> <9923fd660601041640n4602e3a4n304b37acfc429ce9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9923fd660601041640n4602e3a4n304b37acfc429ce9@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:40:04PM -0800, Douglas Cole wrote: > On 1/4/06, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > How about Debian itself? > Thanks Hamish for all you have done for Linux-Ham related stuff and > for all your opinions folks, I guess most of you have not used the > "easy" distro's like SuSE, Redhat/Fedora and Mandrake recently, that > make setting up the "tough" stuff like X, networking (wireless and > wired) and sound a breeze, for all you folks who are programmers or > have built your own distro' from scratch or have been compiling your > own kernels since ver 1.1 well all I can say is I look up to you in > awe, but unfortunately even though I have been using Linux since my > first Yggdrsil six disc set (1996 I guess) I never did get the hang of > doing all the stuff that most of you folks seem to feel is so easy. So Doug, Please try Debian's most recent release, sarge (3.1). The installation process was completely rewritten (first rewrite in years) and does make everything easy. Debian installation used to be (perceived as) hard, but that shouldn't be true any more. Ubuntu (and presumably Kubuntu) is using the new Debian installer. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB