On the subject of what is the best distribution, I love Debian. I am familiar with both Slackware and RH 5.0 and had real issues with both of these before I decided to buy a CD with Debian 2.1. It is great.
My only real problem is the methods of keeping current. I install packages using dpkg -i <packagename>. I find the .deb packages on the ftp site or other sites, download them then install. If there are dependencies, I go looking for the required packages and install them. Is this the right way to do things in Debian? I gave up on dselect because of the huge number of packages you must look at. I tried apt but it told me some of my packages were configured wrong and would not go on. How would I change this? Also, gnome-apt, do I need gnome to run this? I have KDE 1.1 and like it. Andrew MacKenzie
