Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: limitations of Mandrake

[David Grant]

J Busser wrote:

> At 7:34 AM +0100 11/19/04, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
> > I do not want to make Debian advertising but I hope you are aware 
> > that Debian
> > works on PowerPC (and on 11 other architectures as well).
> > Moreover I might add that I think I'll finish the Debian packaging 
> > next week.
> > I'm just waiting for some hints from Karsten how to bootstrap the server
> > sanely.  Once this is done the bug squashing season might start. :)
>
>
> I had downloaded it and tried to install. It got a bit confusing with 
> varying hard drive partition format requirements (needing an HFS Mac 
> partition without which copying would not be possible from the Debian 
> to OS X [UFS?] partition). Moreover yaboot didn't seem to behave the 
> way the documentation said it should. I was a bit pressed for time and 
> it was a year ago, it is possible I would now understand the 
> instructions a bit better. Dual-boot would be nice but for a while I 
> could tolerate having to reboot.
>
> To be able to use Debian as a client OS, does a person need to be a 
> power-user much more than for other Linux distros?.

No.  I find Redhat the most confusing OS to use.  I remember the GUI 
wasn't able to configure my network properly, so I looking in the conf 
files in /etc but it was too confusing.

> If I had trouble installing it myself, I could get help, but I 
> certainly don't want to *need* help adjusting things that should be 
> "basic" e.g. TCP/IP network settings, connecting to a choice of 
> printers etc.

I just migrating my maching at work from Windows to Gentoo.  Installing 
was only about 2 hours and everything after that was a breeze.  Debian's 
TCP/IP config is pretty straightforward, just edit some file in /etc/, 
like interfaces or network, something like that.  Then restart something 
in /etc/init.d.  For printers, install cups, foomatic, etc... go to 
http://localhost:631.  Then use kprinter to pring.  Just examples.  
Debian is easier than Redhat or Mandrake.  Create a net install CD every 
2 or 3 years and never install or upgrade from CDs again.

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