changing to debian from slackware

From: Joel Kaasinen (opqdonut_at_ip217-64-180-12.adsl.academica.fi)
Date: 02/28/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:17:21 +0200
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    Hi,

    I have an old dual 133mhz pentium server (64mb ram, ~8Gb scsi harddisk) with
    slackware 9.1 installed. Before I chose slackware, I pondered for a while whether
    to install debian or slackware. I've also used RH 7.2.

    I've become a little unstaisfied with slackware for a few reasons: (1) their
    webmaster (@slackware.com) didn't reply when I sent him a mail about a mistake on
    the site that might befuddle people new to slac. (2) the number of packages is
    really small (30% of my software is compiled from source because of this). (3)
    the package tools are not powerful and good enough (there is no command I know of
    to check for updates on all packages installed, or to fetch packages from the net). (4) the packages are old (I want to have a 2.6 kernel :) and (5) some packages
    don't work!

    I've heard people say that debians package system is great (and doesn't have
    problems 2-5 :). So now I'm seriously thinking about switching to debian.

    Any tips (I want to keep my config the same and avoid reconffin')?
    Differences between debian and slack?
    Comments?
    Advice?

    Please forward a copy to joelli@mbnet.fi, I'm not a subscriber (and don't want to
    subscribe for the sake of one post :) 

    -- 
apparently yours,
J
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