[ltp] Recomendations on the "best" distribution for TP

[Tino Keitel]

On Monday,  7. May 2001 18:59, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> Martin Fluch wrote:
> > Debian. If you know already UNIX and like learning the beauty of a realy
> > nicely packed and designed distribution. Debian is packed by voluntears
> > and they don't have any schedules to obey, there is no presure by any
> > marketing strategies to get this or that software into the new release,
> > there is no presure to make a new release until a certain due date. And
> > you can see that in the result, stable means _stable_. The text based
> > installer Debian 2.2r3 (the most recent stable version) is really nice.
> >
> > Check their web site at http://www.debian.org
>
> I too use Debian and I like it very much. However, the problem with the
> current stable release (Potato) is that it doesn't include and support
> Kernel 2.4 and XFree 4. I had to manually install both in order to get a

There are Debian potato packages for kernel 2.4. I use them and there are no 
problems. Look into the news section of http://www.debian.org. I also use 
XFree86 4.0.3 build from the source and installed to /usr/local/stow 
(apt-cache show stow for info).

Tino

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