Re: DEBIAN

[<mhugo82@charter.net>]

I've only posted a couple of times but I use Mepis(Debian based), the installer picked up everything on my laptop perfectly.  After the install you can changes the sources file to refelct only Debian sources then upgrade to a Debian  sarge system. No problems as of yet.
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> From: NZG <ngustavson@emacinc.com>
> Date: 2005/03/17 Thu PM 10:40:17 GMT
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: Re: DEBIAN
> 
> I am also a debian user, but sometime I think it's just because dat's the way 
> I wuz raised.
> 
> It's apt-get upgrade feature is very effective, but since you are asking about 
> initial installation, I have to tell you, it's no picnic.
> 
> I have found that the testing CD's don't always produce a usable 
> system(especially on laptops), and the stable CDs don't produce a system 
> anyone would want to use.
> 
> Once you get it up, it's pretty kewl, but getting it there can be a trick 
> sometimes
> 
> NZG.
> 
> 
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:02 pm, mark@bish.net wrote:
> > I use it.  I find it very easy to update packages as well as install
> > software that doesn't come in .deb format.  I use it for developing and
> > less for the bells and wistles.
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, bntly_rhds wrote:
> > > has anyone used debian, and possibly has any comments on it?
> > >
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