On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:38:57PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
I have to disagree with this logic altogether, when I first installed Debian I was only a step above raw linux newbie. I had been disappointed with the way that all the other distributions were difficult to install software on and not easy to configure (read Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware & SuSE).
I guess people are just different, hehe. I found slack incredibly easy to install but redhat was a nightmare because of dependancies, etc. Several other people have found the same. Yet there are plenty of people who are quite happy with RedHat and, even, debian. :)
Well all of them are easy to install IMHO, just getting them configured/into a working state is a bit more tricky. The Debian way is very good when you get used to it.
Thank you, I should read the FAQ more, but I still don't think it is clear/is too complex. There's no real type "this; this; this", which is useful if you're beginning with something like this. So yes, I probably was in a rush and missed this.
You are very correct in that the FAQ is not linked from the front page but once you get hold of it then you find it is very well written/no nonsense (well about the right level IMHO) but then again maybe upgrading to unstable (which is technically unsupported) should be hidden a bit.
That would be great. Does debian provide any security related package features? With NetBSD, you have audit-packages, that downloads a list of vulnerable packages from a central repository then compares the list of currently installed packages against it.
you add the line deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
to /etc/apt/sources.list and subscribe to the mailing list debian-security-announce when you get a mail on that list you do apt-get update apt-get upgrade and everything is dealt with for you!
Adam