On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:08:34 +0530, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com said:
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:19 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
I have to say this -- clear the thought of Debian being a geeks-only distro from your mind and give it a serious try. There is little difference between Debian and Ubuntu once it is installed. Here's a
Look, for a person who has known the UNIX / Linux environment in his entire life, Debian is a nightmare. I'm not talking usagewise but I'm talking with reference to installation and maintenance.
Really? I just installed Debian on a new dell laptop. The installer allows me to have one boot partition; and the rest is encrypted. On the encrypted volume, the installer allowed me to configure LVM -- including a logical volume for swap. It discovered that I had a dell partition, a windows partition, and configured that into grub. The machine rebooted fine (decryption and all), and uses hibernate to suspend itself -- all within an hour or so.
It has the standard X setup, including nvidia non-free drivers, bind, emacs -- mostly using the chicken peck installation (hit enter until it stops asking you questions).
Apart from the download time, I barely paid any attention to the install (apart from partitioning the disk).
This is a standard dell precision m90 box, and so far, I have had to do _nothing_ special.
manoj