Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: => one of the things that most impressed me about Debian was that => once I'd done the install, pretty much all the services I'd installed => support for were set up and working. With previous distributions, => I'd => always had to spend far too much time figuring out what I'd installed => and working out how to configure it.
Quite. I previously used Caldera, RedHat and SuSE. I decided to try Debian, and yes, the dselect part of the install was a pain but not a lot more so than I found with SuSE and RedHat when I opted to choose which packages to install. I found YAST just as mind-boggling. Anyhow, once I had a working Debian system I too was amazed at how well configured my system was. I only had to install a package and it worked flawlessly. This most certainly wasn't always the case with SuSE or RedHat! I had struggled on RedHat/SuSE for ages to get all my Tk apps to use TkStep (to give them a NeXT look). All I did with Debian is intall the TkStep package. Bingo. Just one small example. Then there is apt. Once you have a working Debian system, apt is just wonderful. apt-get install newpackage will get the newpackage and all other necessary packages. Painlessly and flawlessly. Brilliant! In all, Debian is well worth the effort. It will be interesting to see what Corel do with the install routine. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)
