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Re: The beauty of Debian (Libranet)
I'll have to agree with you, I'm hooked
on Debian. I have an extra machine
lying around and I've been considering
one of Sorcerer, Rock or Gentoo Linux.
But Debian has so many apps and once
you get used to the way it works its real
smooth.
I was installing some perl Gimp modules
via `perl -MCPAN -e shell' and it complained
it couldn't find "zvtterm" - geesh, what the hell
is that?
So I jumped over to www.debian.org/distro/packages
and filled in the form for "tell me what package "zvtterm"
is in" - an wa la, end of story. Did an `apt-get install'
and continued on my merry perl way.
So would Sorcerer, Rock, or Gentoo be able to do the same
for me?
Although, I still might play with Gentoo, it looks pretty
cutting edge, and its main guy, Daniel Robbins, writes
some good articles for www.ibm.com/developerworks.
- greg s.
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 03:07:45 -1000
Cyberclops <[email protected]> wrote:
> The beauty of Debian (Libranet) is that it has the
> ability to upgrade itself more or less automatically
> from the Internet (under your direction of course).
>
> Debian is the basis of your system. Libranet has added
> some easy to use administrative tools to "Debian."
>
> Debian is a very pure form of Linux. Linux is actually
> the system "kernel." That's basically all the text
> stuff you see
> fly by at boot up time. Debian then adds the packages
> and package management system to the Linux kernel.
> Libranet
> then chooses and selects Debian packages and assembles
> it into a working system combined with an easy
> installation
> and a beautiful system tool called the "Xadminmenu".
>
> Debian is differentiated from the "RPM" (Red Hat Package
> Manager) distributions such as Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE,
> and many others.
>
> I have noticed that most experienced Linux users tend
> to gravitate to Debian. My own opinion is that Debian
> tends to
> be more of an academic enterprise than a commercial
> enterprise like most of the others. I believe it is
> more well
> tested because Debian has a very large world wide group
> of people looking at the packages and testing them. The
>
> commercial RPM distributions tend to rush out more up to
> date, but less tested packages. Unfortunately a user
> pays a
> penalty for using the "cutting edge" packages because
> the the RPM style of distributions seem to constantly
> suffer
> from a large variety of rather major bugs.
>
>
>
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