On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > I never use the config tools, I was referring to things like dselect, dselect is.. annoying at best. personally, i just install a base system, and use apt-get to install everything else i want. exact same way i install a redhat box. > the lack of a basic XF86 configuration during install personally, i prefer that. just me, though. > hardware detection (ie, kudzu) want kudzu? apt-get install kudzu. that's one of my favorite things about debian, that it doesn't include the hardware detection crap by default - lets me configure it *properly* on my own, without mucking around. then again, i may be "old school" - newbies probably don't want to do that. (but nobody ever said debian was a distro for newbies.. well, at least i certainly didn't.) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list