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chaotic_lady

thinking about reinstalling my computer

Jun 16, 2005 20:58

I want to put a new hard drive into my computer and install Linux on it ( Read more... )

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mcnutcase June 16 2005, 21:19:41 UTC

Debian is outdated and hard to use, gentoo is NOT a good starter distro or second distro, and has some real issues at the moment, so SuSE 9.2, or the latest Mandrake.

chaotic_lady June 17 2005, 07:55:42 UTC

Mandrake I don't have anyone handy using that distro.
my friends use SuSE or Debian.

Thanks for your opinion.

thank you! miss_ada June 17 2005, 09:08:50 UTC

Your comment on Debian was added to the list we comply for our sysad: Why no-one besides him thinks Debian the best.

Unfortunatly, he's making up a counter-list :) ... and we're quite par.

Re: thank you! fakiiri June 17 2005, 09:15:39 UTC

Debian stable is suitable for nuclear plants and other extremely high uptime requirement systems where human lives are on the line. Otherwise it's a joke :-).

Re: thank you! miss_ada June 17 2005, 09:19:23 UTC

yes! our list wins! And we have the wittier entries :-)!

Dangit. naruki_oni June 17 2005, 11:59:47 UTC

I've just spent a few days downloading the latest Debian because someone else said this about it:

Debian has officially released the 3.1 version of the Debian GNU/Linux distro. This is great news! Debian has been working on this release for a couple of years now and during that time have developed a much improved installer for Debian GNU/Linux. If you are looking to try out GNU/Linux and have not done so yet this new installer makes it easier for you to install. My reason for choosing Debian GNU/Linux is because of the package management it is first class and the largest available of any GNU/Linux distro. Both apt and dpkg make package installation, removal, and updating much easier since dependencies are automatically dled/handled along with the requested package. For more info checkout the Debian website.

He even had links.

The jiglo method of downloading is neat, but still sucks for me.

Re: Dangit. fakiiri June 17 2005, 13:23:52 UTC

Order Ubuntu cds from here. It might be faster to order them by mail than to download.

Okay... naruki_oni June 17 2005, 14:06:23 UTC

I skimmed all over, but I never saw how they can afford to ship free CDs everywhere in the world. Ideas?

We just picked out our new apartment today, so I don't even know the mailing address I'd be at. Heh.

Besides, I like the idea of downloading the distro in DVD format. It's my tiny little acknowledgement of the geek genome.

Re: Okay... fakiiri June 17 2005, 14:21:43 UTC

They probably get donations? Anyways it's their problem, no? :) They do ship to Finland so I don't think that Japan will be any different.

If you really want the DVD image you have to download it with BitTorrent.

I figured, but still. naruki_oni June 17 2005, 14:29:48 UTC

Seems like they'd need a lot more donations than normal, but what do I know?

I already have the first (and largest) DVD of the latest Debian burned and ready to go. The second one is still downloading, but it should be finished in a day or so.

Bittorrent would be nice, but that's not an option for the DVD image. At least, not for Debian (that I could find on their site).

I have to get ready for my first day of work on Monday. ;-)

Re: Okay... apweiler June 17 2005, 19:32:43 UTC

Not so much donations as the fact that the project was founded and sponsored by some rich entrepreneur... he got rich, sold his company, and poured a load of money into making a Linux distro, or something.

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