Naresh on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:00:25 -0500


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Bill Jonas is leaving?



On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, John Lavin wrote:

> epike@isinet.com said:
> > well i hear a lot of good things a lot about debian
> > enough to want give it a try.  I'll try to get debian
> > running on one of my boxes.
>
> Yes, lots of good things.  My biggest stumbling block was that I had
> gotten used to the RedHat/Mandrake/etc gui simplified(dumbed down?)
> installs that do good things with autodetecting.
>
> Once I worked through (and it was work) configuration, debian is very
> sweet.  I hear Libranet is easier on the install and it has all the
> benefits of debian.
>
> Progeny would help too.  This is from my "Bill Jonas" archives (we'll
> miss you Bill!!)
>
> -------------------- snip ---------------------------------------
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:20:09PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > http://archive.progeny.com/progeny/pgi/
>
> Let me add that I gave it a spin a week or two ago and it was quite
> nice.  In fact, you even don't reboot at all after you boot off the
> CD-ROM (they must monte[1] it or something) -- I certainly wasn't
> expecting that. :)  Autodetects a sane X configuration and all that.
> Pretty spiffy installer, all in all.
>
> [1] http://www.scyld.com/products/beowulf/software/monte.html
> -------------------- snip ---------------------------------------
>
> -john
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