There is deselect for newbies and aptitude in the Woody version .debs are missing one crucial thing. digital sigs Mike Coleman wrote: > Marvin Bellamy writes: > >> I got tired of dealing with sound/mouse issues with Mandrake, so I've decided >>to try installing Debian (my 4th distro). I just can't deal with Slackware's >>BSD scripts anymore :) Anyone know what the basic "feel" of Debian is? >>i.e. what makes it unique. > > > To me, the feel of Debian is like the feel of (GNU) emacs. It's highly > developed, full of features, somewhat lacking in novice features, targetted to > hackers (i.e., hackers not crackers). > > Debian was first on the scene with a real dependency system, which is IMO > still better than redhat's. It has public per-package bug tracking. The > apt-get install tool is really cool once you get the hang of it. > > Mike > > > >