Re: [Sheflug] Call me coward...

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> Came across this article (linked from RootPrompt.org), talking about
> what a total pain the Debian install is:
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-09/lw-09-vcontrol_2.html
> 
>  Now, a few of you chaps use Debian, don't you? Stephen T certainly.
> 
>  Call me a coward, but if things are really this hard, why bother?

Personally, I didn't find it a hard install at all, even though I was
installing it on a system I didn't know anything about, and it's from a
crap vendor (HP)...  then again, I'm used to editing BSD disklabels with
ed: vi is for girls ;-)

Personally, I find it the closest to my favourite vendor Unix (Digital,
before Compaq bollixed it up) - they've managed to mix some BSD-isms and
some SysV-isms into a coherent system that lets me get at the guts of it
whenever (and however) I want; unlike RedHat, they don't mess with the
default, well-known behaviour of software packages in stupid ways (look
what they do to smrsh, for $DEITY's sake...)

The only problem I had was odd hardware - whenever the video card in this
PoS goes into 1024x768, the monitor goes into powersave mode and I can't
get a display back any way other than a warm reset.  Gotta love HP
hardware.

Still, that's just my taste... :-)

Cheers

R


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