Jan Muszynski wrote: > > On 18 Apr 99, at 12:31, Stephan Goldenberg > wrote about Re: Debian vs. RedHat:
> This newbie found it easy just selecting one of the pre-configured > installs. You can then fine tune the package selection after the > initial configuration is installed (this can of course take days, > weeks, maybe months or years :) ). This then amounts to 1 or 2 > minutes deciding which configuration to install (based on > needs/wants), and no fighting of dependencies. You can, of course, > take longer to decide which configuration to install by checking the > complete list of packages installed with each configuration etc. I just installed the workstation standard, but since then I have been 'fighting with dependencies' and learning dselect and dpkg, but I still prefer them to glint. The hardest part for me was partitioning. I'd just bought a new 8GB drive, and wondered how much space to allocate for /, /usr, etc. I have some Linux experience, with SUSE and RedHat. Debian sounded like a challenge and I've found it to be very user friendly, although many have not. Matt
