Mike Leone on Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:52:40 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] And speaking of installing Debian ...


> It is noted that the Debian system is not the easists to install, but
> Debian gives you everything with 7 CDs in the Woody distribution.  The
> other commercial distributions are designed for basically setting up a
> desktop system.  If you want to set up a web, ftp, or rsync server you
> need to fetch the packages off of the web and install them.

Uhhmm ... what? Every distribution I've ever used (RH, Mandrake, Debian,
Slackware) all came with server packages included. I've never had to fetch
packages off the web to install a web or ftp server.




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