From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 18 21:18:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05BC14D4C for ; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA09736; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:45:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA68752; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:45:37 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:45:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best) Message-ID: <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4>; from Gianmarco Giovannelli on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:51:32PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Sunday, 18 July 1999 at 22:51:32 +0200, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > At 18/07/99, Brett Glass wrote: >> >> Yep, the only one that's better, IMHO, is Debian's; among other >> things, it lets you bring things in directly from a Web browser >> (such as Lynx). Speaking of which, what is the status of FreeBSD's >> new ports/packages system? > > Debian ??? I tried to install the 2.1 and I think the dselect front end is > too much difficult also for an average Unix user... > They say apt is better , but in the installation I (IT) maked it wasn't .... I installed Debian from the CDs distributed at USENIX. It was a *whole* lot better than UnixWare, but so far everything has been. Debian upset me by not being able to install X (not even manually). I had to go through quite some pain to get it running. Also, it only installed a subset of the man pages, though I asked for everything. I've just completed a backup of the Debian partition, and I'll try RedHat 5.2 next (5.2 because that's what I got given at the NT UNIX Conference last week). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message