Mine too, and I agree. Just yesterday I had a web server
which one of my chip design guys wanted to run/compile
a test on; he emailed me a list of what he required, which included
CVS (which was not previously installed).
Thanks to apt-get, not only did I accomodate his needs, but
my server was upgraded in under 5 minutes :-)

Go Debian------------>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:37:05PM -0000, Garrett Ellis wrote:
> Hear hear!
> 
> My first distribution of linux was Debian 1.3.1 and I am very glad that was my choice.
> 
> Garrett
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Blake Barnett [SMTP:Blake.Barnett@developonline.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:40 PM
> To:	'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
> Subject:	RE: Introductions
> 
> If you really want to _learn_ linux, not just how to use it, but the
> technical nitty-gritty --Go with Debian.  If you want to simply use linux as
> you would use windows then Mandrake is probably best.  
> 
> There's no better way to learn than diving in.  Sink or swim.  I must have
> re-installed Slackware 5,000 times when I first started learning linux.
> 
> Blake Barnet
> Sr. Unix Administrator
> DevelopOnline
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Russell [mailto:ron@siliconbuddha.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:43 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Introductions
> 
> 
> Hello all.  After my post to aztechlist I was referred over to here for
> being a good place to learn Linux stuff.  
> I'm a Microsoft bigot and it looks like I'm turning to the dark side. <-
> Please don't flame me that was a joke.
> 
> I'll be installing my first Linux OS this weekend and hopefully getting it
> to dual boot with Win2k.  I haven't decided on a distribution yet, but it
> will probably be Redhat.  I've been told that I should get the redhat Linux
> bible that has the 7.0 distribution so I think I'll be buying that.  Is the
> Red Hat 7.0 distribution relatively current?
> 
> And I'll be getting the O'Riley "Running Linux" book as well (due to popular
> opinion).
> 
> Ron Russell - MCSE, CCNA, CNE
> 480-6-Buddha
> Silicon Buddha LLC
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