>I encourage you to install Debian and keep notes, and to post the >notes, regardless of whether you stick with Debian. Your experiences >will help us. All of us.
--+ Thanks for your encouragement. I, with previous projects, didn't approach a task with documenting it in mind.. so this is all new to me. =) I hope I manage to pull something together. Already I've collected a pretty extensive amount of reading. > >--David >David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > (I hope this is all of the above.) > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 13:24:35 -0500 (EST) >From: David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >sysy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ject: Re: New user rant..urr, questions. > > >Rack: > >I think you will like Debian, but please, please have patience. > >Debian gets a bad rap for being hard to install. I am not very good >at installation, and I got it up on my own, with the definitely >difficult dselect and dpkg. You will be using apt, a distinctly >superior breed of installation software. > >Read carefully and completely the release notes and experiences -- >OH there are mailing list archives available on the Debian web site >www.debian.org. You have to look. It has a search engine that I >think you can use to locate stuff. I have not used the search engine >yet as it was set up fairly recently. > >I hope someone will give you some specific references to his/her >experiences, and encouragement. > >I assure you, your documentation of your experiences will be >welcomed by me, and others here on Debian-User. > > >You experiences sound like my motly experience, excepting you >replace the C64 with and Apple 2 and add several mainframe and mini >computers to the mix, along with AT&T 3b2s with System V.2, A 386 >with a Interactive's 386ix System V.4 port to the i386, and System >V.4 on a couple of Gateway EISA 486 machines here in the computer >science department. As soon as Linux was available and sufficiently >stable, we put SLS 1.01 on those machines, then Slackware, then >Debian 0.93. We haven't looked back. In place upgrade is the way to go. > >I still am not very good at keeping the box running. I have had the >good fortune of having student system administrators who seem to >always come out of the woodwork, to be extremely good, so I have >been able to concentrate on teaching and my one hobby, music. > >I maintain my own Debian systems at home, but I tend to install and >use a version until I need something that only a later version >provides. I have been running 2.2 (potato) since the first of the >year when it was supposed to be unstable. It wasn't at all unstable. > >I program development in support of my teaching and text book >writing. I have not lost data on a linux system due to a software >crash, neither operating system crash, nor a failure of free >software, since the early Debian 0.93 days. > >I have lost some data due to hard disk failure, but that happens >with any operating sytem. > >Windows 9x crashes twice daily if I use it lightly, and at the level >I have to push it to do my text book writing I find that 3 to 5 >times a day is more like it. From what you say, Lose 9x and NT are >expensive jokes on users and programmers alike, jokes in poor taste. > > >--David > > > >On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, sysy wrote: >[snip] > >> ** WARNING ** I TYPE A LOT! DEAL WITH IT!! >> >> >> --+ I'm an experienced computer user, and have been looking at >> Linux closer and closer over the last few years. On a couple of >> occaisions I have attempted to install various flavours of Linux >> with.. umm.. "classic" results. You see, I'm cursed.. for me, >> software breaks in the strangest ways. Trust me. If you think it >> happens only to you, yes, it's documentable and exists in others. >> There is no cure. >> >> Anyways, after a horrible experience with Mandrake (it's looks >> good but tastes bad), I've decided on Debian because: > >[snip] > >> And so I'm left here. Don't let me down. >> >> Rack. >> >> Website to come.. maybe if crosswinds (http://www.crosswinds.net) >> gets their act together so I can update.. hrm. Anyone want to >> host me? =) >> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >> >> > >--David >David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > (I hope this is all of the above.) > > > >
