On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
Note the "expert" really needs to be a debian expert not a general linux one. Maybe I (and I'm definitely not claiming to be a linux expert, heh) missed something, but when I was recently helping someone with a debian install, finding any information seemed a bit of a futile task.
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).
The search functionality on debian.org seems a little odd, and neither of us were able to find a simple how-to on moving from say, stable to testing or unstable. Although this could be my inability to search/grok manpages properly, but this tends to not fail with pretty much every other distribution/operating system I've come across.
Hmmm, the Debian FAQ does cover this Sections 5,6,7 & 8. I must say that if you are planning to install Debian (or any OS) it is very helpful to locate the FAQ first. The Debian FAQ is (IMHO) the best I have ever seen for any OS ever.
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
Anyhow if you want to have someone give a talk on Debian, its package manglement system and the Debian way of doing things then I am supposed to be doing one at the next Alug meeting (should even have handouts!), please let me know btw what you want me to talk about and what level to put it at. (quite a bit of my talk on Debian will be culled almost directly from the Debian FAQ btw!)
There is a very high chance that this talk will be the meeting after at the UEA now as It looks as though I am not going to have time to get everything together.
/me cowers at thought of preaching Debian to the unconverted ;-) /me also cowers at the thought of public speaking
Adam