Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Babb wrote: > The responses indicate that Debian is a distro to take into any server > room, deploy it, and not loose sleep about something blowing up when you > leave. Definitely one of the strongest points. But you are missing another strong point of Debian... > I've already rolled out

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Dave Babb wrote: > Good Morning, > > > My current distribution of choice is Arch Linux. Arch is too techie for > my daughter, who wants to admin her own system. Hi Dave, welcome to Debian. The last distro you'll ever use. I'd suggest you and said daught

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:08:52PM -0600, Dave Babb wrote: > OK..OK. > > I get it.. > > If I'm understanding what all of the responses have said the > way> > > > Stability, robustness, testing, testing, more testing, cautious deployment of > new stuff, and keep all of the various

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Babb
Also.. Re downloading all 14 images I have been listening to my daughter for something more manageable for her. I have been watching Debian (after receiving many favorable recommendations) The day Sarge hit the streets, and I downloaded ALL of the images on release day #1

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Babb
OK..OK. I get it.. If I'm understanding what all of the responses have said by the way> Stability, robustness, testing, testing, more testing, cautious deployment of new stuff, and keep all of the various architectures in sync. The responses indicate that Debian is a distro to

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:30:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show > > you how to get a 2.6 kernel. It is that way because 2.4 is consistently > > better across all the architectures that Debian support

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Joey Hess
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > If you press F2 or F3 (I forget which) at the boot prompt, it will show > you how to get a 2.6 kernel. It is that way because 2.4 is consistently > better across all the architectures that Debian supports (not > necessarily true for i386, but true when you consider how

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:17:58AM -0600, Dave Babb wrote: > Good Morning, > > > My current distribution of choice is Arch Linux. Arch is too techie for my > daughter, who wants to admin her own system. > > I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge". > That was not necessary. Only

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

2005-06-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 16:17, Dave Babb wrote: > I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge". You didn't need to do that. A single CD would be more than enough for a basic install, after which apt will download any packages you ask it for. Just quicker. > Default Kernel still in the