Debian 3.0 CDRs

[Leigh Finch]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:28, Alfred wrote:
> At the risk of being flamed I would like to add a con to using Debian.
> When I installed it (eventually, the boot disks kepts segfaulting during
> install...) it was a bare system. To get Xfree 4.0 (for GL support) and
> KDE 2.2 to run was a major exercise, with lots of hacking of apt config
> files to make it work. In the end I gave up and reinstalled Mandrake...
>
> When it comes to dependancies I like the FreeBSD ports system. "cd" into
> the package you want and type "make", works like a charm every time :)
>
> Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> > Mark Paine wrote:
> >>The other great advantage to Debian is the Debian Policy which I think is
> >> under rated by a lot of people.
> >
> > Probably a major factor in the general quality I have found in Debian. I
> > think the policy is just as big a thing as apt.
> >
> > The other nifty thing I like is having security.debian.org in my sources
> > list, this, policy and apt makes it very easy to fire of a round of
> > security updates without too much worry about breaking things.
> >
> > Thirdly, I haven't had a recent set of Debian CDs for a long time now. I
> > just install from a network boot image or an old CD set and install from
> > the network.
> >
> > Antti