On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 04:51:25PM -0500, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:38:44PM -0500, nate at refried.org wrote: > > 2. Debian is not hard to install. If you think otherwise, why do you > > think it is hard to install? What makes other distributions easier > > to install? > > Debian is harder to install than just about any other distro except > maybe slackware (Haven't reinstalled a slack box lately), things > like having to download the entire base and put in on what, 6 floppies? > <distrowar> This is simply not true. I've installed Debian at least a dozen times, and never had to install the base on floppies. Although I *did* download the images when I was thinking about trying to install Debian on an old 386 laptop with no CDROM. :-) [snip] > dselect, *gag* =) OK, you nailed that one. Dselect suxors. :-) > Some people say you should have to configure everything on your own, > but if you're of that school of thought, you're already spending your > time running something like Debian or Slackware, personally I don't > have the time to spend mucking around with things that I already know > how to configure when the distro can do it for me (ie, kudzu). Who said that when? No reasonable person I am sure. AFAIK Debian has fairly decent default installs for its modules. I do spend time dicking around with configs but that's because I'm into nonstandard Apache things. I'd say I configure "by hand" < 1% of the packages I install. But how is using kudzu not "configuring something on your own"? Once you start changing parameters, does it matter if your tool is vi or kudzu? > Debian is 'cool' to people who get continually harassed by the people > in various social forums that are called 'debian zealots', once they're > running debian they're part of the in-crowd. Kind of sad actually. I have never been harassed by Debian zealots, unless you count that one time they tied me up in the woods. But that was an anomaly, I'm told. </distrowar> /me sighs, thinks IHBT, kills lame thread -- trammell at el-swifto.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Mailing List http://www.mn-linux.org Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota irc.openprojects.net #tclug