[Sheflug] Another stupid Debian Q.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <baz [at] barriebremner.com> writes:

    Barrie> Just having got my RH7.1 all installed and pretty much
    Barrie> everything working, I'm still itching to rip it all apart
    Barrie> and go Debian, however I'm a little confused as to how I
    Barrie> can be selective with an apt-get dist upgrade (or whatever
    Barrie> the command is).

Well now,

I installed Debian 2.2r0, did the apt-get dist-upgrade to 2.2r3, and
then looked at getting Woody.

150+ Mb download - and that was with a pretty small system installed
on the PC.

Add to that the fact that it looks like Debian would take a reasonable
bit of reconfig to look/feel the way I would want I figured I'd leave
it for the moment.

Debian is definitely a minimalist's distro by default.

I didn't seem to have a graphical web browser installed - and
considering that I like reading sites like photo.net, it seemed a
little annoying :-)

I think the main point was that I like Gnome, and I haven't got the
slightest clue how to go about setting the system to do what a RH
system does as default - init 5 gives gdm and X, followed by Gnome,
complete with panels and shiney things :-)

Ximian are lying - their apt-get install method for Gnome seems to be
broken - something I have no idea how to get around (yet) - hints please!

I was mightily impressed that the post-install errata fetch is one
command - no thought required - didn't have to think which packages to
get.

So, for now my workstations are staying RH - although the various
other machines I have kicking around (fileserver/webcache and victim machines)
will more than likely go Debian at the next upgrade (about 5 minutes
time :-)

Just thought I'd share my thoughts.

I've given the install and setup a go, but I'd like to hear how I go
about installing Ximian, how I fetch new packages (i.e. if I wanted
mpg123, or squid, or nfs stuff etc).

One last thing - has anyone tried the Woody snapshot CDs that seem to
be kicking around, or are you all downloading everything?

Cheers.

Baz.

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