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Download Anaconda for Debian
hsoom writes "Debian Planet is reporting that unofficial sarge-based ISOs using the Anaconda installer can be downloaded from here. The features developed so far include '...changed the code that installs software to use APT instead of RPM, removed Red Hat-specific configuration hooks, and written a new tool called picax that builds Anaconda-based installation CDs from a Debian repository'. However there are features that are not yet working and it is not recommended for use in a production environment."
If your a Linux Fanatic, that wants an Easy to use desktop Linux, with upto date packages, gui configuaration and hardware support along with the mom approval.
I tried Srackware, Debiam, Gen2, Windows XP, but in the end I found Mandrake Cooker. Now with 2.6 kernel KDE 3.2-b2, OpenOffice 1.1.1, and more. Debian can keep its geek (I mean bearded-loser-geek locked in the basement for 20 years, not the cool punk geeks like me) operarting system for them selves, While I work productivley with OpenOffice.org 1.1 using my Microsoft Natrual Keyboard, utilizing the Windows and Internet keys as killer shortcuts, those bearded losers are writing using LaTeX using Emacs with a Dvorak Happy Hacking keyboard thinking somehow, they are a master author.
While I'm using the Apple+enchanced Konqueror to browse the web at lighting fast speed on my cable modem, the bearded losers are browsing on their 28k modem using Lynx or Mozilla with ugly alaised fonts (ughh), trying to figure out how to mod me -1, flamebait on slashdot, but DNS dosent work, so they have enter the IP address manually.
I'm playing the hottest linux games such as Unreal Tournement, Tuxracer, Frozen bubble and Chromian along with my case modded gamecubee and PS2, while the bearded losers are playing snakes in emacs and nethack.
I'm playing all the latests hits with Rhythmbox and listening to Internet radio, while the bearded losers are listening to ogg files from the command line, after hhaving to edit 20 text files and recompile their kernel 5 times, oh, Debian regarded all the good drives as "non-free", so he uses a POS ISA sound card instead.
Simply put, If you want to be leet, but don't have time for gentoo, and don't want to be in the basement all your life, Get Mandrake Cooker!
I don't to critisize OpenOffice here, but I do have some problems with it. I have a Liebermann Mach 3.8 machine (A P4 clocked at 3.8Ghz with 4Gb of PC3600 DDR RAM) running Debian Unstable with kernel 2.4.23-bk7 compiled with -o3 with Anacoda installed.
I have been waiting for 2 minutes for it to load, then it types very slowly. Normaly I can do around 50-70 WPM on my Microsoft Natural Internet Keyboard, With Debian I'm lucky to get even 10 WPM. The problems don't end there. I won't even go into the stabillity problems, the annoying command line, the broken package mangement and the annoying kde bias (I'm a gnome user).
Meanwhile, my Dell Optiplex with a Pentium II at 400Mhz, running Mandrake 9.2 loads in 20 seconds, if that and its predictive text and autocorrection means I can get around 80-90 WPM and get it all correct.
I'm sorry, but in the current state, Debian is a piece of dog shit. Don't get me wrong, I love linux, I use it exclusiveley for games thanks to WineX and KDE, but as far as getting REAL work done, Mandrake 9.2 is unbeatable.
Now this is inevitably going to be moderated -1, troll or flamebait, but it dosen't change the fact Debian is the WORST distrobution ever
That the person installing the computer know what hardware they have?
I understand confusion among MB chipsets and the likes... But when a sysadmin comes up and says "Do I have a southbridge?"
I have helped many people compile a kernel, and they always say "Well how am I supposed to know that?"
For a homeuser, sure, I understand... But even then, couldn't manufacturers include a cut sheet?
But sysadmins, come on... If you don't know the hardware in the machine, maybe it's best you don't work on it, and find someone in the office who does....
We like the entry-barrier because it keeps the really stupid fuck-heads out of our world.
Remember how fucked up the news-lists got after AOL unleashed their millions of fucking idiots and retarding asswipes on the world?
They took a perfectly good thing and totally fucked it up beyond all practical usage by making it easy for idiots to get on
You need to think of things in Darwinian Evolutionary terms. People who are too stupid to think for themselves need to stay where they are and not bother those of us who are busy thinking for ourselves. After all, we aren't all descended from Hair Dressers, Phone Hygenists, and Marketing types are we?
But seriously, not that I've blown all my karma points, Linux is getting much easier for people to install. Have you actually tried using Knoppix or installing Libranet?
I hand out a copy of either one whenever anyone mentions any interest in the stuff. I just hand them a Knoppix CD and tell them to check it out. It won't do anything to what's on their hard drive, but it will give them an idea of what is available
Most at least try it. Some like it. Others come back for more.
Dude go take some bong rips and chill out.
Or just install FreeBSD and skip the anal rape you get with Gentoo.
99.99999999% of the world said "I really don't care. And what the hell is a Debian?"