9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
11:57 a.m.
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.
A good compromise is to install a Debian version that has better hardware
detection and initial installation program like Libranet
(www.libranet.com) and then carry on with Debain's apt-get (or your
choice of tool) to keep things up to date.
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