Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:45:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing Linux (was: Sanity regained -- back with the best) Message-ID: <19990719134536.K65436@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4>; from Gianmarco Giovannelli on Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:51:32PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.990718043632.conrads@home.com> <4.2.0.58.19990718101705.00ccb720@localhost> <4.1.19990718224838.01324160@194.184.65.4>
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[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
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