Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 14, 2004 03:40 AM
With Debian you don't "hand-pick 4000 apps to install one at a time". Rather, you pick that package you're interested in at the time. Since Debian manages the dependencies so well, if you pick something at the top of the food chain all the packages you need to do that one thing are installed as well.
Therefore, if you did pick something that required 3999 other packages to work you would indeed be installing 4000 packages, but you only needed to decide on 1.
Granted, you still have to install apps individually, but you don't need to do it all at once. Providing you're hooked to the network, and you need a video player, just look for one and in about 5 minutes you're good to go.
Not to mention, if you kind of hose up your distro you can just "update the distribution" and things will be fixed up quite nicely.
Sorry to go on, but I think Debian has about the best maintainence model of any OS I've ever used.
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Re:Debian in the lead again!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 14, 2004 03:40 AMTherefore, if you did pick something that required 3999 other packages to work you would indeed be installing 4000 packages, but you only needed to decide on 1.
Granted, you still have to install apps individually, but you don't need to do it all at once. Providing you're hooked to the network, and you need a video player, just look for one and in about 5 minutes you're good to go.
Not to mention, if you kind of hose up your distro you can just "update the distribution" and things will be fixed up quite nicely.
Sorry to go on, but I think Debian has about the best maintainence model of any OS I've ever used.
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