[GRLUG] distros, DE's, etc.

Collin adderd at kkmfg.com
Wed May 17 16:23:44 EDT 2006


He can... he can... buy me a pony... and a puppy dog... and give me 
personalized service and pay me for it, and wash my car, and wax it too. 
Then I'll switch to Debian. ;-)

Bob Kline wrote:
> JTR offered to do this at the last formal
> get together of the GRLUG.  Only he and
> two others showed up from what I remembered.
> He also offered to help others set up Debian
> on their machines at most of the install get
> togethers in the past.  I don't know how
> many takers he got,  but the opportunity was
> certainly there to get help form someone
> was bullish on Debian,  and more than willing
> to help. All to ask,  what more can he do to
> get people on board?  Make house calls?
>
>     -Bob
>
>
> On 5/17/06, *zdennis* <zdennis at mktec.com <mailto:zdennis at mktec.com>> 
> wrote:
>
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>     Ben Rousch wrote:
>     > Ubuntu has a server install on the regular CDs that is very
>     stripped down
>     > (no X, no servers). It is easy to enable the Universe and
>     Multiverse repos
>     > and build your system from barely-above-ground up at the bash
>     prompt.
>     >
>     > To use it, just start with a regular Breezy CD and type 'server'
>     at the
>     > install prompt.
>
>     I have seen less dependency hell with Ubuntu/Kubntu
>     universe/multiverse then with Debian's unstable/testing. And
>     although you can
>     always figure out how-to fix the dependency hell, sometimes it is
>     annoying to spend hours doing so. There is a solution to
>     this.... john-thomas richards. And with that, JTR needs to speak
>     at a GRLUG meeting or luncheon or whatever on debian, so I can
>     move to the next level of wannabe-uber-debian-l33t-hax0r.
>
>     Zach
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