Subj : Re: A good distro.
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Sniper
Date : Sat Apr 09 2005 04:00 am

-=> Poindexter Fortran wrote to Sniper <=-

 -=> Sniper wrote to Outlaw <=-

 > Debian is not nearly as easy to setup as most of the others... But once
 > you figure out the install and get to the internal workings, figure out
 > apt... its much easier to deal with than any of the others.

 PF> Depends on what you use it for, too. I use my Linux boxes as home
 PF> servers. Once they're solid and upgrading, I don't care about having
 PF> the latest and greatest distro. Debian was a little rough around the
 PF> edges for the install, but I don't intend to re-install unless there's
 PF> a really compelling reason to or the hard drive takes a dump.

 PF> If you're looking for a desktop system or a system you install more
 PF> often, Fedora looks pretty good, as do some of the more
 PF> desktop-oriented distros. X on Debian took quite a bit of work for me
 PF> to get working.

Actually, I've never had a problem with Debians X side... don't use it
often, but, when I configure the system to have it, it seems to work.

I use my Linux boxes for primarily for storage... The vast majority of
my files are on the samba shares... including the CD's I have online...
I have 4 CD's that are online via the Linux machines... All my music is
hosted on one of the Debian boxes... :)  All the Movies are on samba
shares... 

Then I have my Debian workstation... its not involved with the BBS
stuff, except for doing the messages, its my desktop that I use for just
about everything else... except for my financial computer which holds my
Quickbooks setup...  If I could find a financial software that was worth
a damn, that was natively Linux, and didn't cost and arm and a leg,
with options on all my kids for the rest of their lives...I'd run it,
but the GNU Cash, basically sucks and anything else costs more than I
will make in the next 5 years... 

Some times, its rather confusing... ;)








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