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On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
How might one start trying out Debian?
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ would be a good start.
Heh, I was just going to post a very similar question. I guess Aaron's gloating about apt got us started...
Yeah I was going to ask about that, last I knew Aaron was a dedicated SuSE user :)
What I specifically wanted to ask, though, is *why* might one try Debian? In short, what has Debian got over the Mandrake I know and love? Anything apart from apt-get? Although admittedly the Mandrake Update is, to put it politely, shite: at least, *I've* never got it working! (anybody had more luck?)
To be honest, pakage managent is usally the biggest difference between distros, many are rpm based (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) and Debian uses dpkg, to which apt-get is a frontend. Why else? Debian comes with exim installed (hooray) rather than sendmail (boo his), but if you like nice desktops Mandrake is prob a best bet. Personally I ran Debian for about a year on my laptop and ended up going to back to Redhat. Alex. -- What goes "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"? A parroty error. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.