[PLUG] Is Debian that hard to work with, or am I that dumb?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Wed Mar 24 19:16:02 UTC 2004


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AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 18:07, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> writes:
>> 
>> > So why don't you just go with Red Hat Enterprise 2.1 Basic Ed?
>> 
>> Probably because it's RPM based and thus belongs to history?
>
> Yeah, those RPM distros belong the same place as those DEB distros. 
> Hopefully we'll all move on sometime soon.

Only the Debian installer belongs in the past.  We all agree on that.
It was a good installer back in 1997, but PNP hardware actually works
reasonably well now.  I haven't been following debian-boot, so I don't
know what approach they're taking exactly.  But with PNP being as good
as it is now, I assume there's not much reason for the installer to do
any hardware detection beyond what a normal boot-up would: just
compile everything as modules and let discover do it's job.

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