Hi folks, this could be meant as a reply to the "Why choose Debian?" thread, but I haven't actually read it. I've been too busy fiddling with my system the last couple of days.
For over a year now, I have been using Debian slink on my home machine, an old Pentium 133. I have tried Linux in 1995 using a Slackware dist that came with a book and then switched to SuSE (4.4 -> 6.0) until a friend convinced me to give Debian a try. Never looked back. Well, last week I put my new machine into place (also an old Celeron 333, but mind you, I am just a poor little student and rather go out than spending money on brand new hardware). I put in the new potato CDs, installed the base system and fetched KDE 2 from tdyc using apt-get. Wow! Slink was easy to maintain, but talk about potato. No more dselect, totally easy network setup, etc. I only had to edit 14 files in /etc (like fstab, hosts, or X11/XF86Config) to reconfigure the new system to match my old one. This evening, I pointed to my sources.list file to woody, and went the `apt-get update && apt -f dist-upgrade` path. Came back two hours later, answered some questions, ... and now I am sitting before my brand new shining woody system. Easy as pie! Didn't break anything. Compare this to the hassles I had with SuSE and now have with RedHat which I have to admin on work. So, if any of the Debian developers is reading this, I just want to congratulate you. Keep up your great work, as it is truly appreciated. Bye now, Viktor (Now, if I could only get X to render my TrueType fonts. Darn it, I knew it was *too* easy! :) -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
