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bullgoose · 07-04-2003, 04:47 AM

This is to JesusPimp AND Cheerios; if you want "painless" Debian, try LibraNet; the guys (Jon and Tal) have taken all the pain out of Debian, but left the power. The latest release (2.8) is getting the type of reviews I never expected to see for any Debian based Distro; a couple of the reviews mention "ease of installation" for Debian!?!?!? I sweated blood installing "Slink", and "Potato" and "woody" were almost as hard (I'm on dialup; if I wasn't, I would have just done "apt-get dist-upgrade"). Anyway, I've been using LibraNet since 1.9, it's done nothing but get better in every release; it also has a utility called "Adminmenu " that lets you do all the little (and not-so-little) pain-in-the-ass administration tasks that need to be done, and you can do them right fron the desktop in a GUI; you can even re-compile the kernel from your desktop. All the other Debian goodies are there too, like apt/dpkg, so why not D/L one of the older versions and give it a shot? The current version is rather expensive ($56.00 USD), but they do have older versions available for D/L.

07-04-2003, 04:47 AM	#5 (permalink)
bullgoose Insane Location: Central N.Y.	This is to JesusPimp AND Cheerios; if you want "painless" Debian, try LibraNet; the guys (Jon and Tal) have taken all the pain out of Debian, but left the power. The latest release (2.8) is getting the type of reviews I never expected to see for any Debian based Distro; a couple of the reviews mention "ease of installation" for Debian!?!?!? I sweated blood installing "Slink", and "Potato" and "woody" were almost as hard (I'm on dialup; if I wasn't, I would have just done "apt-get dist-upgrade"). Anyway, I've been using LibraNet since 1.9, it's done nothing but get better in every release; it also has a utility called "Adminmenu " that lets you do all the little (and not-so-little) pain-in-the-ass administration tasks that need to be done, and you can do them right fron the desktop in a GUI; you can even re-compile the kernel from your desktop. All the other Debian goodies are there too, like apt/dpkg, so why not D/L one of the older versions and give it a shot? The current version is rather expensive ($56.00 USD), but they do have older versions available for D/L. __________________ "If I had it to do all over, I'd do it all over you."