[LUNI] Re: New to Linux

[David Ehle]

Granted, debian can be a BIT tricky for someone who has never worked with
linux/or unix, but its not bad.  For testing the solution might be to pop
in a knoppix CD and run/install from that.  RH/Mandrake/Suse can't lay a
finger on that ;)  Knoppix is sort of debian anyway.

I don't know what this company's programming language is focused on, but
Debian has a large following in the Scientific Community so shouldn't be
discounted just because its a little harder

The other big perk of developing for Debian is the package management
system.  Once they learn how to build a .deb package it will make
installing the software on clients pretty much foolproof.

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Jirsa, Jeff wrote:

> I disagree that Debian can be easily installed by newbies.  I wouldn't
> recommend Slackware or FreeBSD (yes I know, its not Linux) either.
> The installers for these distros are as crude as Red Hat 5.x, IMHO.
>
> For a newbie, I would go with Mandrake, Red Hat, or SuSE.  All are
> usually available at Best Buy, CompUSA, or Micro Center.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Garfield [mailto:larry at garfieldtech.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:36 PM
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Re: New to Linux
>
>
> Red Hat is often the de facto standard for businesses, for better or
> worse, so you'd better make sure it works with that.  I find Mandrake a
> nice desktop system for first time users, but it's not very popular with
> business.
>
> If it's a hard-core development box rather than a pretty desktop, then
> don't overlook Debian.  Debian stable is a very known quantity, and for
> servers probably fairly widely used.  It's also not as hard to setup as
> some people claim, except for X, which is just a byatch that needs to be
> slapped regardless of the distribution. :-)
>
> Those three are also, fortunately, three of the top four distribution
> versions in use (the fourth being SuSE, with all four claiming to be the
> most widely used.  Meh), so you'll probably cover most users by
> supporting those three.  If you're feeling adventurous later, you'll
> want to test against Debian Unstable and Gentoo as well, although
> probably not in your initial release.
>
> Rick Lindas wrote:
> > Hey thanks guys.  Now I know a little bit about what I've got to look
> > forward to.
> >
> > Initially, we will have to limit the configurations we support.
> >
> > You see, we don't supply an application as such.  We supply a computer
> > language that our vendors use to write applications.
> >
> > The only thing our company would use Linux for is testing our language
> > to make sure all the commands work the way they should, and test for
> > submitted bugs.
> >
> > I've got to come up with some recommendations and probably make the
> > final determination as to what Linux configuration we will support.
> >
> > What are your opnions.  What is the easiest/simplest/most
> > common configuration for newbies to set up and support?
> >
> > Again Thanks
> >
> > Rick
>
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