Re: [Sheflug] Which distro?

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Dr Eric Edward Moore" uttered these words of
wisdom:
>
> Debian is lightweight?  With 15,000 packages in unstable, that seems a
> kinda bizarre thing to call it :)  Woody (stable) is 14 CD's (7
> binary, 7 source, I think).

Anything that you can install a working OS in a few meg of disk and memory
is lightweight; the rest is optional extras. SuSE ISTR was the worst I've
used for minimum amount of required disk. Redhat (and I presume Mandrake
as I've never used it) fall somewhere in the middle.

>> My preference is for Slack (I've got complaints against Debian
>> ... see the list archives).
>
> Happy debian user here :)
>

There were some things in Debian I just hated to do with the system admin.
As I say ... see the list archives. I seem to recall ranting a little at
the time :)

>> Thing is it may be a bit of a learning curve to what you're used to as
>> neither hold your hand in the way that SuSE/Mandrake/Redhat do (or claim
>> to do).
>
> That's true, debian isn't too terribly simple to install.

Slack is relatively simple in comparison (I never could get the hang of
Deb's dpkg). Okay, it's still all text-based install (like Deb) rather
than a fancy graphical installer of RH et al, but it works :)

> Well, pretty simple to install for a server, getting sound and
> scanners, and other things like that to work can be a bit trickier.  X
> is moderately tricky (though there may be an easier way :)

X is always tricky :)

Chris...

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