Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Sun Aug 25 2019 19:36:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:

after Ky muttered,
>> My question is... why Debian?? https://www.debian.org/derivatives/
> 
>> I've had little luck with Debian under its own name, and when it
>> did finally run, performance wasn't very good.
> 
> LOL, my initial experience was the opposite.  :)  Really liked the
> Mandrake installer and it looked perfect on my desktop.... until I
> rebooted it into the system for the first time.  I never could get
> the video right with it, or with Red Hat.  Finally someone suggested
> debian.  It had a simple ANSI-like installer that reminded me of DOS
> utilities, so I was not expecting it to work, but it sure did!  Have
> stuck with it, or a derivitive, ever since.

In that era, the issue was whether the distro had support for VESA 1.2; 
most required VESA 2.0, and if the vidcard didn't support it, would 
variously refuse to install, or would install fine, then mess up as soon 
as they got to the actual desktop. And back then, a lot of video cards 
(even high-enders) did not have VESA 2.0 support. I had the same problem 
until I got hold of a spare Matrox G200, which had real VESA 2.0 
support. (I had G200 cards in the Windows P3 systems, but they weren't 
spares!)

>> I see this ISO is about a year old, so will probably need a lot of 
>> updating after install, given it's semi-rolling. But it's based on 
>> Debian stretch, a long-term release, so should have support for
>> several years.
> 
> Well, it is currently running stretch, and quite well, so it will
> continue to be updated until 2022 (I think).

Close enough, then. :)

> This system is a server so I don't plan to run GUI on it.

Ah. So how do you set it up? I have this PowerEdge that fell on my head 
that I think will become a headless server, mainly for backups but maybe 
for media. Still open to suggestion for what OS to install (it came naked).
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