Troy A. Johnson said: > I want to know of the > downsides I might not be aware of. Are there any? I can think of two things that tend to bother people (other than dselect's UI): 1) "Debian is too far behind." The stable distro isn't updated as often as many people would like, but I've had extremely few problems with running unstable (and those few were invariably fixed within a day), so this is a non-issue for me. And it's pretty easy to run a mix of versions if you want to stick with stable, but need a few things that are only present in unstable. 2) "Too many things aren't available as debs." Yes, it's true - for whatever reason, Red Hat is the 'default' Linux flavor, so RPMs are a lot easier to find than debs. That's why someone invented alien. (As you may have guessed, I consider these 'problems' to sit somewhere between 'spurious' and 'insignificant' on the severity scale.) -- "Two words: Windows survives." - Craig Mundie, Microsoft senior strategist "So does syphillis. Good thing we have penicillin." - Matthew Alton Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r++ y+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org