Second Distro: Debian!
I was really excited to mess with Debian, because this actually was the first linux distribution I had actually used. Years before I installed Debian on my old Mac Quadra 700 (No I'm not making that up, it runs linux!) So I was excited to run it on a system with some power, and I wanted to use the KDE desktop, rather than ICEWM ;-)
Debian was even easier to setup than Slackware, because of the installer interface. So if you don't know what partitioning is all about the install program will walk you through it. The coolest thing about my tests with Debian was I now could use more than one desktop. I tried out Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment and for giggles I even had ICEWM.
The package management on Debian is a lot more advance, I would dare say one of the best. To put new software on it was as simple as:
$ apt-get {package-name}
and the package was searched for in the prescribed locations downloaded if necessary and installed.
I still use a debian based system from time to time. A rather popular "live cd" called knoppix, and a special variant of this called knoppix-std which I use for security work, that I do from time to time. With a live cd you don't need a hard drive the entire operating system is on the cd. It boots into ram and runs from there. Basically when a program is run it is uncompressed into memory and away you go. Really neat concept. There are a few of these distros out there, I'll post a list in a while.
Anyways I digress, I probably would have stuck with Debian but my boss had run into difficulties with it and was kind of set on Mandrake by this time, so I left it.
Next time Gentoo!
Debian was even easier to setup than Slackware, because of the installer interface. So if you don't know what partitioning is all about the install program will walk you through it. The coolest thing about my tests with Debian was I now could use more than one desktop. I tried out Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment and for giggles I even had ICEWM.
The package management on Debian is a lot more advance, I would dare say one of the best. To put new software on it was as simple as:
$ apt-get {package-name}
and the package was searched for in the prescribed locations downloaded if necessary and installed.
I still use a debian based system from time to time. A rather popular "live cd" called knoppix, and a special variant of this called knoppix-std which I use for security work, that I do from time to time. With a live cd you don't need a hard drive the entire operating system is on the cd. It boots into ram and runs from there. Basically when a program is run it is uncompressed into memory and away you go. Really neat concept. There are a few of these distros out there, I'll post a list in a while.
Anyways I digress, I probably would have stuck with Debian but my boss had run into difficulties with it and was kind of set on Mandrake by this time, so I left it.
Next time Gentoo!
posted by Nerdtek at 11:15 p.m.
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