Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 11, 2005 11:30 PM
Another good thing about apt-get is that you can get it with Debian which is the largest distro. I have tried many distros and found they all did the job but managing software is just easier with Debian and apt-get. A clue to the solidity of Debian is that it is the basis for a bunch of distros with great reps like Knoppix and Ubuntu. The apples do not fall far from the tree.
About the only niggling problem I have had with Debian is that in the switch to AMD64 I do not have OpenOffice except in a 32bit chroot. That is not Debian's fault. The guys at OpenOffice think 32bit runs fast enough. Problem is, I need to run a bunch of thin clients off one 64bit machine and I need all the zip I can get. For servers, 64bit is wonderful and OpenOffice is a server app for me. My people work on very large documents and reformatting several at once pegs the CPU metre. I will try AbiWord.
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Re:Apt-get?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 11, 2005 11:30 PMAbout the only niggling problem I have had with Debian is that in the switch to AMD64 I do not have OpenOffice except in a 32bit chroot. That is not Debian's fault. The guys at OpenOffice think 32bit runs fast enough. Problem is, I need to run a bunch of thin clients off one 64bit machine and I need all the zip I can get. For servers, 64bit is wonderful and OpenOffice is a server app for me. My people work on very large documents and reformatting several at once pegs the CPU metre. I will try AbiWord.
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