From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lcollins@gci.net Subject: Re: general Debian questions Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:30:48 -0900 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF91C28.8090208@gci.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021209201020.0209fa60@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org James I have installed Debian Woody on my laptop without too much trouble but am having fits trying to get Woody installed on my desktop. Could you tell me how you did the install using Knoppix? I may try that route because I do enjoy the distro, just having a tough time getting it installed. Lonnie > At 09:48 PM 12/9/02 +0100, James Miller wrote: > >> I've begun using Debian after having spent most of my Linux "career" >> (all 18 month of it!) on mostly Mandrake and Red Hat. I've come to >> really like Debian, especially the apt-get installation and update >> routine. I'm considering defecting to Debian. True, I was spared the >> majority of Debian install problems by using the install-to-hard-disk >> utility that was written for Knoppix. It worked quite well, actually. I >> think it was the least painful Linux install I've been through - and >> I've been through more than I can count. At any rate, before devoting >> full alegiance to Debian, I thought I'd ask onlist some general feedback >> on the distro, both pro and con. I use my computer strictly as a >> workstation, though I am considering setting up a tiny home network on >> the LTSP model - something about the "target system." I guess I'd like >> to start off on Debian feedback asking some particulars about how and >> how often packages are updated? I understand Debian tends to "run >> behind" with respect to the other distros. As I understand it, new >> releases of the OS itself occur with far less frequency than the distros >> I'm used to. But the packages (what, under M$ systems, would be called >> "3rd party apps," as I understand it), surely, must be upgraded with >> greater frequency, are they not? >> >> Thanks in advance for feedback on this issue. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs