On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > This is one of the things I love about debian -- it doesn't make any > assumptions about what you want on your machine. It installs the very > basics necessary to run the OS and update your packages, and then you > can choose what to add to your setup.
Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a "minimal" distribution :) > For a lot of machines, X is not at all fundamental =) > > I'll readily admit, though, that installing debian from scratch is not > my favorite activity. It can be quite confusing to a new user, and even > after having installed debian on several systems, it takes me a while to > get the hang of it again. I did my first Debian install "right" after like 25 times. The install program has no more secrets for me :) > The good news, though, is that once you've > found your way through the initial install, you never have to see it > again, because it's so *easy* to upgrade. Yeah, unless you start installing stuff that did not came packaged from Debian. For instance, I like having a conservative Woody base system with bleeding edge custom compiled apache and php on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
