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. -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
