[olug] Debian?

[Adam Lassek]

Until Woody is released, Progeny is the way to go since the packages are a lot newer, and actually work (I installed my work machine off of testing--yikes). I wiped Potato off my home machine a while ago and all I did afterward was change the /etc/apt/sources.list to point to Debian's offical servers (you're better off doing this because Progeny takes even longer than Debian to include packages into their APT servers). Now my box is pretty much indistinguishable from any stable or testing install. Progeny is nice this way because you can easily install regular Debian packages and it won't break things. The only real difference between Progeny and Potato I've found is the install, everything else is pretty much the same. The main advantage of Progeny is the graphical installer, although the graphical APT tool they include totally blows. Woody will include a graphical installer, which is probably why they're taking so long to release it.

As for 3D, it doesn't matter what distro you use--it's gonna suck. Doubly so considering you have a card made by a company that no longer exists. You may have better luck than I, though, since I spent three years trying to get my damn Voodoo3 working and to this date have never seen 3d run under Linux on my box. Now that I have a GeForce2, maybe it's time to try again. Best of luck to you there.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hungate Jim <Hungate_Jim at prc.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:37:30 -0400 
To: "'olug at bstc.net'" <olug at bstc.net>
Subject: [olug] Debian?


>   OK, I've tried several distributions over the years. Redhat, Suse,
> Slackware, Mandrake, Storm, etc. Anyway, I've kind of settled in to the
> Mandrake thing. They made it easier for my wife to switch. Anyway, on my
> machine, I'm thinking the time has come to move to Debian.
>  Is anyone here running Debian with a Voodoo4/5 video card? Would I need to
> update to Xfree86 4.1.0 to get the 3D portion to work? Would I be better of
> going with Progeny? What are the advantages or drawbcaks of Progeny? Any
> suggestions?
>   Thanks,
> 
> Jim Hungate 
> 
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