installfest distros

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:29:12PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> Agree with Allen, and disagree with Steve.  Slackware is the easiest one
> to install, because usually you install everything from the CD to
> harddisk (3GB).  Slackware has no concept of "workstation", "desktop",
> "server", or "expert" themes, which, quite honestly, I don't fully
> understand why Debian, Redhat, Mandrake, and SuSe continue to
> perpetrate.

Debian installs a minimal system, after which you can ask it to install
whatever you need.  Much saner than install everything first and remove
later.

Of course if you don't know what you need, then why are you using a
computer? :)

The tasksel categories in Debian are not really that useful.  I
certainly don't agree with many of the choices they make so I never use
them and don't recomend them at all.

Lennart Sorensen
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