{"id":137,"date":"2005-06-06T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-06-07T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T10:17:57","slug":"while-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"While Apple…"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hile Apple indeed announced to move its propriety hardware<\/em> platform to the x86 processor<\/a>, there was better news today, and that is (yes, yes) the official Debian Sarge release<\/a>. It’s the first major release since Woody (2002)<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

The first time I actually had a real Debian running was when Alfons made his second visit to Canada (that same year I think) and brought in both Woody and the Unstable branch. Before that I ran Caldera OpenDesktop, which I happily got rid of after getting familiar with Debian. A year after he dropped off Fedora Core 2, something I happily got rid of afterwards too: it was too cumbersome and (worst of it) slow. It could have been that particular version, but I’ve never bothered looking back.\n<\/p>\n

A couple of thoughts about Debian (a 2004-July release, which I admit, needs to be updated) because I was just in the process of installing yet another Debian server for work:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Apt-get rocks. There’s no other package manager that is as good as apt-get. There isn’t. Check my links here<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. It’s installation is literally flawless, even when you select your packages individually: Many times I had ‘scrappy computers’ with hardware problems. During an install on a computer I barely managed to install a base install of Debian after the computer’s secondary IDE slot started to act funny (DMA errors), therefore not refusing to read the rest of the Debian CDs. No problem: change the sources.list in \/etc\/apt to the right http or ftp mirror (instead of CD) and go<\/em>.\n<\/li>\n
  3. I don’t like to use KDE or GNOME for any Linux server. While deselecting those packages associated with those graphical interfaces, apt takes care of the right dependencies.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why would you want an Apple?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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