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Re: [PLUG] newbie debian questions / philosophy
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 05:52:06PM -0400, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > why not go with progeny? slick installation, better hw detection, and made
> > by the debian developers. best of all worlds? perhaps.
>
> Probably. I wondered which one of the debian children would be best. I
> heard storm was cool till they folded. Caldera sounds too businessy for
> me. Corel? I didn't hear of progeny. I wanted to get a 100% debian
> potato compatable debian w/ a better installer. Storm scared me after I
> installed debian, then added storm cd to apt-cdrom, then hosed my box.
caldera isn't a debian child... corel is okay, but it's not as fluidly
debian (if that makes any sense whatsoever) as progeny. progeny is pretty
much commercialized debian.
> Also, what does progeny offer besides slick install. Are there non-free
> admn tools which edit standard debian config files? debian does things
> much differently than mandrake from what I see and it's annoying to switch
> back and forth for admn, but for regular user, it seems like the same.
there are tools with gnome (and kde, I'd assume) to edit the x
configuration, network config, printers, and other general items. what are
you looking for?
> Fred
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