On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:50 , anahata <anahata@treewind.co.uk> sent:

>On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:55:45PM +0000, Alejandro Lopez wrote:
>
>> But I've just come accross this article:
>> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php\?id=831
>> entitled "An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0". They say things like you are 
>> supposed to know the name of your drivers (name of the files, not the name 
>> of the hardware to be supported that usually comes as a description in a 
>> database!).
>
>I haven't read that review (yet) but it's not that bad. Debian comes with
>a program modconf for picking driver and other modules to install, and
>it lists them together with 1-line descriptions of what the driver does.
>That's really usually enough, and modconf relieves you of having to mess
>around with modprobe, insmod and editing the files in the /etc/module*
>tree.
>
>> I have installed Debian years ago, then Redhat recently. I've found Debian 
>> installation a nightmare compared to Redhat
>
>Initially yes. Once it's all working, Debian's the package management 
>system is far more bullet proof than rpm.

    This is why Planet CCRMA uses apt-get for their RadHat distribution.

Jan