On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 Satya wrote :
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:13:18PM +0500, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2004 14:43, Sajid ali Baig wrote:
hi, Which flavour of debian is easy to install.
Personally, I like unstable (sarge? sid? I don't know).
Sid is the most unstable one (similar to fedora test), followed by Sarge (similar to fedora core) and then Woody (the robust server type OS). Frankly if you are using a gerneral purpose OS you can very well go for Sid as it is the most latest one. Go for Sarge if you want a more stable OS for mail,web,ftp server. Woody is mostly comparable to any solid Unix or Enterprise Server OS. All these funny names have been derived from the movie "Toy Story" Remember there was even a Potatoe!
Similarly knoppix (single live cd. (the latest version is two live cds) , woody (rock stable) and other debian based distros.
Knoppix is more of a live-CD thing, but I hear you can get it to install itself on the hard drive. After that, tweak the /etc/sources.list and you've got whichever debian you want.
No other live CD can be compared to Knoppix - consider it as the best if you are trying Linux for the first time. You may even try the newer MEPIS which is based on Debian and has a good setup.
How many CDs are essential.
Depends on use again, but the first three are enough for the vast majority. The others cds 7 for woody and 10 for sarge (afaik) have stuff like development libraries and electronic, chemical and other engineering stuff.
Once you have a basic system installed from disc 1, you can tweak sources.list and get whatever you want off the net.
apt-get (install:update:upgrade) As simple as that
I think the other discs contain special boot images in case disc1 doesn't work for you.
are the CDs at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/torrents/ good enough(easy to install.
All debian distros are the same. But check the mirror update policy. some of them might be a few weeks out of sync.
For the CDs check the MD5 sum if you want to be absolutely sure
Sameer
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 07:08:58AM -0000, Sameer Niphadkar wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 Satya wrote :
Personally, I like unstable (sarge? sid? I don't know).
Sid is the most unstable one (similar to fedora test), followed by Sarge (similar to fedora core) and then Woody (the robust server type OS). Frankly if you are using a gerneral purpose OS you can very well
Okay, the comparisons to Fedora mean nothing to me. According to the Debian web site sarge=testing sid=unstable and woody=stable.
stable > testing > unstable in order of stability and in reverse order of update ~frequency. Details at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Once you have a basic system installed from disc 1, you can tweak sources.list and get whatever you want off the net.
apt-get (install:update:upgrade) As simple as that
Tweaking sources.list enables you to change between stable/unstable/testing and also lets you set the appropriate package mirror (mine is set to the one at work, for all work computers as well as gort).
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Satya