On 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> No wonder people say that Debian is the most difficult > Unix-clone distro to install and use... What kind of people are they...? What kind of difficulties you have? > Fisrt of all, since Debian is not widely supported > (as I have noticed; compared to otherdistros such as > FreeBSD or Red Hat Linux), there are not many mirrors > for me to download Debian sources for my installation. > In my case, the only mirror in my country (Indonesia), > does not have a complete archive. It is also not up to > date... How many mirrors do you need? I've been using www.debian.org since the beginning; the problems that arise mostly on TelkomNet (the connection to the Internet -- TelkomNet's Jakarta gateway -- gets broken intermittently). The unavailability of Debian mirrors in Indonesia, I think, is not Debian.org's responsibility; it's Indonesian Debian users. > Another thing, is the dselect program: it is quite > difficult to use... You can use apt-get, and a web browser to find the packages you need. Oki
