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Two Reviews of Debian 3.0

Posted by michael on from the you-must-be-smarter-than-this-stick-| dept.

FrankNFurter writes "Debian Planet features a review of Debian 3.0 from a user's perspective. Time for a reality check, debianistas." And twstdr00t writes "Linuxwatch.org has posted their review of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Woody. 'The package managment system is nice and easy to use. But the lack of good configuration and installation takes that all away from Debian.'"

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  1. Re:Debian is rock solid but the install ... by espresso_now · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Check out Gentoo Linux. It uses a package system called Portage that is similar to FreeBSD's "Ports" system. Basically, you run "emerge apps-editors/vim" to automatically build Vim for you, it will also download and build any dependancies required too! The only downside is it will take a while to build X, or any other large package(Gnome, KDE, etc).

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    Of course, and I highly suspect it, I may be talking out of my ass. -oqti
  2. Re:Interesting review by PhysicsScholar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please don't mock me. I'm not sure what you mean by "troll", but it seems like it's not a nice thing to say about someone, and thusly is very hurtful to me.

    I don't know everything, but I try to give good advice here at Slashdot. And if you have a problem with that, find some other site to read.

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    Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5