Re: Enlightenment (or not!)

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 11:10:36AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Install Debian.  Menus are totally automatic for supported packages.
> They even reconfigure themselves for tree balancing.

	Among other things :)


> Oops.  You do have a degree in IT, don't you?  I hear you need one to
> install Debian.  ;-)

	Now, there's this urban legend that debian is hard to install
going round (and this other one that Linux == Red Hat). Honestly, I've
installed Mandrake, RH, Corel and Debian, and none of them seemed better
than the other to install (well, OK, Corel doesn't count as a distro,
but I didn't have a debian CD handy :D). In all of those that provide
hardware autoprobing I have had to use vi to edit files and sort stuff
out. The only problem I found with debian was deciding what to install
(oh!, I think I'd install this cool package to paint circles in
different colours using Gourard shading and some other fancy effects!).
And so far the only software I have found to be unstable with Debian is
(surprisingly enough) Star Office. The others have had problems with
things like gnuplot (how this can crash in a K6 is something that
escapes me) and octave.

	We definitely need a "slag all other distros off" web page,
Richard :)
	Regards,
	José

-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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