[gameprogrammer] Re: About Linux
- From: Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Gameprogrammer Mailing List <gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:18:40 -0500
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 12:24, Bernhard Bliem wrote:
> Try Debian (http://debian.org). Once you managed to set it up it's
> great. The installer has also improved lately.
I use, and love, Debian. But, there are three different versions of
Debian. The standard "stable" distribution will run forever without a
reboot and the odds of running into a bug are very small. Also, security
updates for stable come out very quickly. OTOH, everything in it is
several years old. The unstable version has the latest everything, but
by using unstable you are agreeing to be part of the testing. I used to
use unstable, but I found myself reporting bugs at least once a week and
I had to get way to familiar with Debian just to keep my desktop
running. The testing release is the happy medium. I rarely (actually
never) run into a bug, but the applications and libraries are a few
months, or more, out of date.
If you use Debian, go with the testing version. There is a one disk net
install for Debian/testing (AKA "sarge") at
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/i386/current/
I've installed Debian/testing on several machines and it has worked well
on all of them.
BTW, once you install Debian, learn apt-get (command line) and or
synaptic (GUI). They make doing updates a snap.
Bob Pendleton
>
> Bernhard
>
> A.Atienza wrote:
> > First of all, Hello everybody; it's my first mail in here!
> >
> > Second thing: Sorry if my english is bad sometimes!
> >
> > Third thing: Talking about Linux, some time ago i tried some linux
> > distros; Suse, madrake, JAMD (?), but i didn´t like them at all. It was
> > too general, if you know what i mean. And also too bloated, a lot of thing
> > i didn't want. i searched then something more configurable, and i found
> > www.linuxfromscratch.com (or .org?) Anyway, it was too much of the other
> > thing. So i'd like something in the middle, a light, small and completely
> > STANDARD distro where i can then install by myself thing like KDE, etc. do
> > you guys know something about that? wheter you know it or not, thanks for
> > paying me attention! And sorry for bringing up questions that don't fit
> > much with game programming... i'll ask that thing in the near future. :D
> >
>
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