[ltp] Slackware on T42?

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 04:27 pm, joshua timberman wrote:

> Personally I like Debian over Gentoo.  I used Debian for two years on
> a mail/web server for personal use and while not a user friendly
> distribution by any means (no happy gui installer like SuSE and Red
> Hat, for example), I found it far easier to set up than Gentoo.

Take a look at the Debian Sarge installer. It's still text-based/ncurses 
interface, but it's made a lot easier than it used to be. Debian has to work 
on several different and disparate architectures so trying to do a spiffy gui 
installer is not feasible. It's still somewhat fiddly, but definitely tons 
less fiddly than the Debian Woody installer was, and Debian installers of the 
past.

Of course, the Ubuntu installer is a point-and-drool affair, but you really 
have to like Gnome to go that route. There is a KDE-based Ubuntu fork in the 
works, but it's in Alpha right now. Xandros is also Debian based, as is 
Knoppix and Mepis. Mepis has an installer as well as being a nice live CD 
distro, and Knoppix has an unofficial disk installer but it's kind of "in 
transition" right now. There's always Linspire too, and you can use apt-get 
to turn it into a true Debian system.

I like Debian. I like being able to issue two commands and have an up-to-date 
system. Really, considering how bad RPM Hell has gotten, I don't know why 
anyone would go with anything other than a Debian-based system. It rocks.
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