On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:46:52AM +0100, John Seago wrote:
The [Debian] file heirarchy, having come to it from Slackware, seems somewhat illogical/over sophisticated. In fact my overall impression is the the whole thing is somewhat over sophisticated. Having come to Linux via Slackware where until the last release the whole distribution was on ONE CD, and if you wanted anything else you obtained it, (in my case with my internet connection on CD), did ./ configure>make>makeinstall/checkinstal and everything worked!
-- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)
I too came to Debian from Slackware, but I did have a little hand holding during my first install. After that I discovered the joys of apt-get shortly followed by either "Ah, it just works" or "Hmm, where did that config file go". X has been tricky for me because of a lack of a clear distinction between v3 and v4 of XFree86 in Stable.
For my next desktop I'll be trying to install Knoppix which I have found amazingly good running directly from the CD (yeah, slow, I know but it understood all my 21st century hardware).
Good luck!
Tim.