Re: [tlug] RE: getting back on track [ was RE: introductions ]

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 06:39 pm, Brett Robson wrote:


> I was considering Febora or Debian.

Debian.  You won't be sorry.  RH's one-year-to-EOL was the final push that 
moved me onto Debian, and I wish I'd done it sooner.  Once you find that all 
you have to do to keep your system up-to-date is once a day type apt-get 
update and apt-get -f upgrade, you'll be hooked.  But if that doesn't get 
you, knowing that installing any of Debian's 12,000 or so packages is as 
simple as typing apt-get install your-package-here, then you'll be hooked for 
sure.  No muss, no fuss, no dependency hell.  apt-get will take care of all 
that for you.

> Fedora seems like it is geared too much towards bleeding edge stuff. 

Fedora is still beta and not everything works.  I think it will also always be 
kind of a testbed for things that might go into RH Enterprise*.

You will love Debian.  Go for Testing or Unstable; Stable is too conservative 
for enjoyable workstation use at this point (should change when current 
Testing goes Stable this year).

Jonathan