[TriLUG] Opinions on Redmond / Lycoris

[Andrew Perrin]

Can't speak to the others, but I've been delighted with debian since
moving to it from RH about 3 years ago. It's true that the installation
process takes some getting used to, but you can't beat the stability and
flexibility. And nightly upgrades, automatically -- it's great.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Mike Helms wrote:

> Thunder Bear:
> 
> I shouldn't really have commented on Debian at all, because it's been a
> *long* time since I've played with it.
> 
> FreeBSD should be completely downloaded ... I'll burn the images to disk
> tonight and give it a shot.  Fingers firmly crossed.
> 
> Speaking of which - has anyone heard anything about the freshly minted
> Solaris 9?  I know it's not Linux, per se, but close enough that it's at
> least worth bringing up.  Or, if this is totally off topic, feel free to
> flame me in private email.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Mike Helms
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thunder Bear [mailto:thunderbear at yonderway.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:54 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Opinions on Redmond / Lycoris
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 08:47, Mike Helms wrote:
> 
> > Every Debian experience I have had thus far has been a bad one.  Buggy
> > installs, buggy bootups, and a horrendous interface that offended all of
> my
> > sensitivities.
> 
> While I would contend that Debian is *not* an example of an easy Linux
> to install, I wouldn't describe it as buggy (I've only installed it on a
> couple of x86 boxes and one UltraSPARC).  But once it is on, it seems to
> be very solid.  Corel did some great work towards improving the
> installer and the interface but sadly they dropped off the Linux map.
> 
> > However, that was also about two years ago.  I really should give them
> > another try - after I try FreeBSD, which I have heard nothing but good
> > about.
> 
> If you didn't like the Debian installer, I don't think you'll like
> FreeBSD any more.  The package management in the *BSD's is also nearly
> non-existant (yes, I've used the poorly named "ports" tree and that is
> not a package manager).  Actually all of the *BSD's are rather...
> errmmmm... utilitarian in their installers.  On the upside it takes
> about 6 or 7 minutes for me to install OpenBSD on a modern PC because of
> that.
> 
> 
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