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Paul Russell wrote:

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One of the *really* nice things about debian is it's package management. I've not had to compile a single program since installing deb. You want enlightenment? no problem: apt-get install enlightenment. You want gnome? apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session etc... It'll download the packages if you've not got them locally and install them. nice. If you've got a fast internet connection (as in ISDN router or faster) then you can even install it over the network, two boot disks and you're away.

the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... which is kinda neat ;)

Sz

Paul

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