[aclug-L] Re: Debian is great!

[James Lancaster <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday 04 February 2004 03:54 pm, Anne McCadden wrote:
> I agree, I want to learn more about Debian.  When my Knoppix install
> went 'south', then I had some help to install Debian with gnome.  I like
> Debian so much that now I want to format the RedHat install and put
> Debian with KDE on that computer.  The Debian install is different than
> RedHat or Suse, but Debian runs great and seems to have more to offer
> than the other distros.  Debian is the main computer that I use now and
> I also have a web/database server running debian.  Now I just need to
> figure out how to get seti to run on debian and the switch-over will be
> finialized.
>
> The only reason why I stayed with RedHat as long as I did is because I
> know more about how it works, I have a couple of books about RedHat, and
> I was able to use Synaptic (a GUI interface for debian apt-get) to get
> my RedHat updates.  I was getting really tired of the hassles from
> RedHat to get updates.  All the distros work somewhat the same, but just
> have a few different features.  At least consumers get a choice as to
> how they want their OS to be.  ~Anne
>

Main Email back up! I do now exist again on the net. Yay, and Kmail 1.6 (so=
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hopefully no more quoted-printable errors....)=20

I will vote for a presentation on debian as well. I will also add the=20
suggestion that it be compared & contrasted to 2 or 3 different distros=20
because most of the others are derivatives from one of these 4, Redhat,=20
Gentoo, and Slackware. (concentrating on what makes debian good of course)


And so this doesn't happen again, the last time we created a supply & deman=
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we had (feel free to add to this):
Supply (people who could and would be willing to present on):
Sane (scanners) Jeff=20
IPcop Jeff
Java Clint
Xemacs Clint
Eclipse Clint
SDL Programming: Jared
Video Stuff: James
Website: Dale, Tom
XFree86: Tom W
LDAP: James
(whatever John Goerzen could :) )
(already done CD/DVD burning)

Demand:
CD Burning
Video playing
Compiling Programs
Make systems
Package Building (rpms, ebuilds, debs)
Clusters (Knoppix, OpenMosix)
Legal Issues
Website
Xfree
Grapics (xfig, gimp, drawing)
SANE
qmail
Eclipse
Wireless LANs

I highly suggest that we chose another topic at each meeting for the next=20
time.=20

James L.
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