On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Arlen Carlson wrote:
SuSE is a great distribution and its probably still somewhere between #2 or #3 for me right now. I'm in the process of converting over to a Stormix/Debian combo. Stormix is basically what I would call a mix of the best of SuSE and the best of Debian, making it really easy for newbies and experts too.
I'm probably going to try Debian out because I really like apt and dpkg. However, I tried Stormix out and it pretty much grossed me out. Seemed like it was trying to hide too much from me and I really don't care for their graphical boot.
-- Greg Thomas http://www.2fortheroad.net
-- It's true that Stormix hides quite a bit in its initial install...requiring a person to then selectively deinstall anything unwanted, although with the
On 22-Sep-00 Greg Thomas wrote:
the easy-to-use Stormix Package Manager--but that could be a good thing for
newbies, but less desirable for experts. (I might add that I believe that the
Helix Gnome addition might be part of this "install things unwanted" aspect; I
didn't want games, but gnome-games is "part" of Helix Gnome from what I can
tell so far.) Debian on the other hand gives you granular control over all to be
installed right from the start.
Ah, the graphical boot, I hate(d) it too...I had the old rain/slink version
installed. But when I reinistalled with hail/potato, I discovered the
"graphical" check box in the LILO configuration. Now it goes graphical for
LILO, then back to text for boot-up messages, and then to gdm (Gnome Display
Manager) for login.
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Arlen Carlson