Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: These issues are being addressed. For instance, developers are considering various , "typical" installations. The next version of debian should see improvements in installation. > 1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup dif

Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Jon Bernard
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Stephen Gregory wrote: > packages. There are a bunch of packages (in 1.2) that were listed as > "required" but weren't really. There are also some dependecies that > bug me. Some of the mime stuff complains if you don't install a I've been installing and reinstalling debian o

Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Stephen Gregory
> 2) It was also noted that: >"Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu > causing a lot of time in conflict resolution." The first time I installed debian I installed way to much. I am hardly a Linux newbie. I found that it was a problem with the individual packages.

Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Dale Smith
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:58:21 -0600, you wrote: >1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: "after all, >linux is linux". I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files, >etc... are all notably different; similar but different. > > This is like the differences between

Re: debian learning curve

1998-01-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: "after all, linux is linux". I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files, etc... are all notably different; similar but different. This is like the differences between AT&T/UCB unix. Yes, they are/were both Unix, but...