Re: [MAT-devel] Re: Hi all (Curt Wuollet)

[Curt W. <wid...@ec...>]

Hi Ray

Ease of use isn't much of a consideration for my own use.  I have been
doing this for a long time and am actually kinda dissappointed with the
painless installs in later versions. Half the fun was solving the
problems and hacking the drivers to get your stuff recognized. I don't
miss loading from floppies though. Where I see the problem is getting
info on the Debian way of doing things. I've been spoiled by having
actual reasonable documentation. We'll see. The other place I've seen
this is for KDE. Even complex programs have the online help file and
that's it. If it isn't in there, you have to read the source. I have
customers who will stay with RH for some very good reasons and I have
several complete customer environments set up. What I need is more
machines so I can keep it all going without major trauma. Unfortunately
that's not in the cards at the moment. Supporting RH from 4.X to Fedora 
and Debian is going to take some juggling. Of course, you don't have to
know as much about a distro these days to use it. At least the last of
my commercial UNIX customers switched to Linux. I don't have to do SCO
or AIX anymore.

Regards

cww




Ray Henry wrote:
> Hi Curt
> 
> Much of the work on the Enhanced Machine Control has been moving toward 
> Debian.  We've found that the Knoppix or Morphix distributions make for 
> some very nice demonstrations with their ability to boot from CD.  
> Either of these will also install to hard drive.  The install is 
> painless as far as pc configuration is concerned but the product is not 
> as flexible as a more traditiional install.  I like a separate /home/ray 
> partition and have to do that for myself after the install has completed.
> 
> Once installed, you are able to use either of these just as you would a 
> traditional Debian install.  Most all of the commonly available packages 
> are in the Deb mirrors.  Building from source is not quite as easy as 
> "apt-get install ??? or running the graphical updater, Synaptic, but 
> I've been able to do it a few times with success.   Building your own 
> .deb is also doable.  Being network connected is very handy for updating.
> 
> Ray Henry
> 
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:49:18 -0500
>> From: Curt Wuollet <wid...@ec...>
>> Organization: Wide Open Technologies
>> To: mat...@li...
>> Subject: [MAT-devel] Hi all
>> Reply-To: mat...@li...
>>  
>>
> <s>
> 
>> I need to find out
>> what, if anything. folks will give up if I steer them to Debian rather
>> than the front runner.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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