Naresh on Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:00:25 -0500 |
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 > -- > John Lavin > jlavin@ccil.org > jlavin@wayreth.net > Public Key: http://mercury.ccil.org/~jlavin/lavin-public-key.gpg > ______________________________________________________________________ > "A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes." > -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing > _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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