[TriLUG] More Installfest questions ...

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:12, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> Whoah - that might be too power-user for me right now :) I'm interested in 
> playing around with Mandrake and Debian at least until I feel more 
> comfortable with those. Then I might start looking at others. I just have 
> to have a base to compare everything else to :)

oh, that's easy - it's just a triple boot then (WinBlows, Debian,
Mandrake) *grin*

> Actually - I was just talking about the way the information on the web site 
> was organized. Since I'm a newbie and I can't recognize what programs do 
> just by their names, it was easier for me to get a feel of what Debian 
> bundles with the distro. I'm sure that when I actually have *something* 
> installed it'll be easy enought to load/unload programs.

Wait until you meet dselect....

> I take it that this is stuff that could be loaded no matter what distro you 
> have? From this site though they only mention Mandrake. Does Debian come 
> with comparable software if not the same?

I've not looked at the site, but Debian has several thousand packages
available. So if you want an editor, it's not a question fo is it
available, but "which version" most of the time *grin*

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