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As "broken" or "old" as Debian appears, I have found their complete installation process and update process easiest of all the distros mentioned here. I actively use Debian at home and at work. I spent the last few nights playing with most install processes - RH9, the Net/Open/FreeBSD series, Slackware (still not ftp/http installable), and still find Debian the easiest. After the install is done, I do like apt-get. I've had problems with rpm in the past, and with all the rumblings of RH hard EOLing RH9, I think, for me, Debian remains the winner. Just my $1. Scott On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Bob George wrote: > David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote: > > [...] and Debian stuck in years-old technology, leaves me no > > good options. > > Agreed that Debian STABLE is years-old. TESTING is much more current, and > generally "near release". I realize that 'testing' might cause concern, but > after dealing with RH years ago, I can say I've had far fewer problems with > Debian! > > I've tried (over the years): > > * Storm (debian) now defunct. > * RH5.2-9 in various increments. > * SuSE 8.0 > * Fedora (close for desktop! but not quite. Quite impressed though.) > * Others I can't think of right now. > > I've been happiest with Debian not majorly breaking things between major > updates... at least the MAJOR things. That said reading the docs between > updates is still a good thing. > > > [...] > > - I am not the typical home user or the typical corporate user. I > > run a HELL of a lot of stuff on my box. On the other hand, I do not > > make one attempg to get something working then give up; I'm very > > persistent. Weight my opinion as you see fit based on that. > > Did you post previously what it is you're trying to do? I'm curious where the > tradeoff between "current" and "stable" lies. I've been similarly dis-satisfied > with various distributions over the years, but recently have found a > satisfactory blend (based on the dropping prices of hardware, and my tendency > to build "frankenboxen" out of parts): > > I use Debian for my server-side stuff (email, etc.) but also consider myself a > power-user/hobbyist for the most part. I find Debian rather bland for the > desktop (esp. for family members) but I personally love it on the server-end, > and have had few problems over the last several years with updates, even > between major revs. > > The latest solution I'm trying is keeping a separate box for Debian doing the > "real" work (email, iptables/firewall, etc.) and configuring separate boxes > with more current hardware as 'user' machines with MDK9.2. Using NFS/NIS, the > user data is all on the (backed up) server, so I can more-or-less wipe and > reload the desktops without too many worries if/when I want something besides > MDK. > > So I've leaned towards a nice, solid Debian solution for server tasks, and a > featureful MDK solution for end-user tasks. I'm happy enough with MDK that I'll > probably join the club to give them some financial support as well, in the > hopes they stick around for a few more years. > > - Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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