Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

From: Graham Smith (graham_at_crazysquirrel.com)
Date: 08/23/05

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    Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:12:08 +0100
    
    

    On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:36, Daniel Ramaley wrote:
    > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 03:06 am, A. Lanza wrote:
    > >i've been running Fedora linux for about 3 years now but... i wanted
    > > to explore Debian as well. Recently, i had to set up a mail system
    > > and i installed Debian Sarge on an old Pentium 3 machine with 128 MB
    > > of RAM. The new(?) Sarge installer is quite good and i had no
    > > problems to set my system up from a net-install CD. apt-get is just
    > > *great*, i usually use an apt-get port for Fedora as my package
    > > manager tool.
    >
    > I just switched to Debian less than a year ago after being a long time
    > Red Hat user (the first Red Hat i installed was 3.0.3). Welcome to the
    > club!
    >
    > If you like apt-get, try aptitude. It has most of the same command line
    > switches, plus a curses GUI that almost makes package management fun.

    For and alternate GUI package manager try synaptic.

    Graham

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