On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Jesse Marlin wrote:
Paul Talacko writes:
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Don Hansford wrote:
Well Eric, I hope you enjoy Mandrake. Linux is still not a "one step setup" system. But it is a hell of a lot better now, than it was a few years (even a few months) ago. I've looked at a few different distro's myself, but I always seem to return to SuSE. But my requirements, (and experience), are probably different to yours. Who knows, you may be back, but if not, just remember, HAVE FUN :-)
I've actually been getting into Debian. Only on a Mac at the moment. I was completely fed up with LinuxPPC which promised easy install, but too much was broken. Now, *all* PPC distributions have bad reputations, basically because there isn't a large enough installed base to do the debugging. But at least with Debian they don't bull%$*& you. Debian is for the hard core - you don't expect it to be easy to set up and it isn't. I installed it some two weeks ago and still haven't got the system running like I want it (can't get innd to start and wwwoffle won't start properly
Why don't you try leafnode. I have it installed and it works great. There is no user authentication, but I just reject at my firewall any hosts I do not want to connect. From what I have read leafnode is not good for serving a large network, but for a small one its great.
Leafnode is great, but innd works really well with Demon internet.
on boot up - but I will sort this out, eventually. I also haven't figured out to patch the kernel to support nfs). It even took me a whole two days to find out why no one could log in via xdm (reason: Xauthority files weren't set up properly).
Hey, but I expected it, and I still appreciate Debian's lack of bull. And unlike on LinuxPPC, emacs doesn't seg fault.
Besides Debian has a package manager to die for. APT 4 FOREVER!!
I do miss rc.config, though :-)
Paul
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