Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 06:25:16 -0700 (MST), Bob Nielsen wrote: >With some patience, installation can be done with a dial-up PPP >connection. Yup. I've got Debian on my main box at home and on my Laptop. In both cases they were installed via netwo

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Jernej Zajc, Stardate 180199.2024: > Hello, > > how does Debian compare to the Caldera and RedHat distributions? > Any comment from ppl that use/used COL and RH are most welcome: > pros, cons, irritations, wishes. I just used RH no COL but here my experiences: Redhat was a bi

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Harrison, Shawn
<> One little trick I've begun using to get around the cumbersomeness of dselect is to use it to select new packages, but then to install those packages manually. That way, it tells me about all dependencies and I can make a list of needed packages. Then I simply go into the CD and dpkg -i all

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Well, I haven't used Caldera, but I feel (unlike some) that Debian is MORE > user-friendly than Red Hat. The dselect method of package selection is a > bit cumbersome, but only because of increasingly large number of packages > available. I agree... aft

Re: Debian/Caldera/RedHat

1999-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jernej Zajc wrote: > Hello, > > how does Debian compare to the Caldera and RedHat distributions? > Any comment from ppl that use/used COL and RH are most welcome: > pros, cons, irritations, wishes. Well, I haven't used Caldera, but I feel (unlike some) that Debian is MORE us