On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:20:32 -0500 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > hmmm... I personally fail to find debian particularly hard to install. > I guess it probably doesn't choose your video card and auto-configure > 3D accelleration and all that other crap but... > > *I don't want it to.* > Nor do I. Again, I prefer Slack as my distro of choice. I like to configure everything, choose my video/sound/etc cards and go from there. Slack's install is rather plain-jane and I like it that way. Not a lot of questions, just a straight-forward jump into the install. Unfortunately, I'm severly lacking in time to configure it the way I want to learn how to do it (just got off an 88 hour work week and it's not getting any better). At least I'm working... > what debian *doesn't* do, is install >1GB of packages just to build a > base system (see redhat). neither does it muck around with packages, > adding its own extensions, hacks and patches (at least not as many as > RH does). and the nicest thing about it: > Exactly why I like Slackware. > *you only have to install it once*. after that, just apt-get upgrade > for the rest of your life. > There was a package that someone wrote to do this semi-automatically, but I haven't been able to find it again. Again, lack of time. > I'll grant that RedHat 7.3 is probably a better choice for the newbie; > partly because it configures for the hardware pretty well; mostly > because it*does* give you all those extra packages... gives people a > chance to learn what packages they want/need/use. > True, but it's also in direct competition with Mandrake, SuSe and Caldera on this. > after that, they can install a base debian system, and apt-get install > packages as needed. > Or Slack =) -- Shawn sfertch at real-time.com Riding to find a cure for MS. To help sponsor my ride (July 21-26, 2002) for Multiple Sclerosis: https://www.nationalmssociety.org/pledge/pledge.asp?participantid=49466