Re: [Sheflug] Debian Groan

["Chris J/#6" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyway, I decided to install a Debian testing kernel - 2.4.9-586tsc, to be 
> precise, basically because I couldn't be bothered downloading the source (I'm 
> still doing StarOffice - might get finished tonight if I go really late!!!). 
> In the name of ALL that is HOLY...
> 

[...snip rant...]

I had a go at Debian on here a few months back, mostly slating the package 
management (apt-get has an unbending love for dependancies, which can be 
worked around but to me it feels too much like jumping through hoops), but 
more annoying and irritating is the fact that "single user" run-level 
attempts to bring up the network by DHCP, mounts every file system, and 
promptly tries to mount any NFS file system.

The fact that later on in the boot sequence it brings up the networking 
according to the config, so for my eth0 that is config'd by dhcp, I ended 
up having two DHCP clients running. One trying to configure every interface 
(and failing on eth1), and the other specifically configuring eth0.

Debian also doesn't like manual fiddling of /etc/modules.conf, instead 
creating files in /etc/modules (I think it was) then running a voodoo 
command to take all of the files in said directory and build an 
/etc/modules.conf ... pointless.

I don't know why people rave about it. I'm back on slack now ... no 
nonsence distribution :)

Chris...

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