I’m Officially a Debian GNU/Linux user now!
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I’m announcing now that Debian has become my official GNU/Linux distro. Previously I’ve use Mandrake (my first distro) as my official GNU/Linux distro, then Slackware, and finally SuSE. Fedora Core 4 actually was on my candidate list as my next official distro because it’s spiffy package management system, but in the end i chose Debian over Fedora.
Debian is more flexible than Fedora because I can download only one CD out of 12 CDs to perform complete installations. Well, people might argue that Fedora can do the same, but the way Fedora did it wasn’t obvious. And you apparently have to end up downloading the entire 4 CDs, which turn out not enough to fully enjoy the distro (Fedora people assumes that most people code in Java, and put a lot of java things inside the CD)
Well, Debian is a nice distro for me, it isnt too bloated, easy to configure, and it has a good package management system. I like Debian.
p/s: I’ve installed countless of other distros before this, but the “official” status is only given for distro that i use for my production purposes and usually meant to last more than 9 months on my pc.
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August 19th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Debian owns kthx :)
apt-get is king of all package management systems.
RPM’s and dependencies can burn in hell..
Make sure you don’t use the default package manager though, it’s HORRIBLE!
apt-get install aptitude
It’s MUCH nicer.
August 19th, 2005 at 6:36 pm
i’m running debian sarge (3.1 – stable / 2.4.69 kernel) on my office pc too.
and i agree with ST, apt-get is a godsend!
apt-get install cappuccino
;)
August 20th, 2005 at 5:58 am
welcome to the geibian dark master papit :D
August 22nd, 2005 at 8:50 pm
Hey papit. I see my powers of Debian influence has finally swayed you into the light!
August 23rd, 2005 at 1:01 pm
welcome to the club!,
apt-get install wajig
advanced apt-get cli. try it out.
August 23rd, 2005 at 2:56 pm
Thank you for your support.. i’ll try it! :)
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4. Try oysters
5: Try anything
6: Try to remember
March 7th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
What happened when Jesus went up to Mount Olive?
Popeye beat him up.
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August 23rd, 2006 at 11:22 am
Hi Mypapit,
I’m having trouble to connect to streamyx.
My debian version is 3.1, installed on Acer Laptop (network card Realtek 8139, using module 8139too)
have ran pppoeconf, but still not connected.
can you give /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider example for streamyx.
thanks in advance