On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:50 , anahata <anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
