[Tfug] Debian Etch Problem

[erich]

Well,
       Distros are becomming so complicated and expansive that
blithly installing from a live CD often gives one more that they
bargained for. I bought a machine about 3 years ago with
Mandrake (now Mandriva) preinstalled. They gave me the works.
It had many office applications under KDE, and it had numerous
services listening on the internet. With a special security feature
that would put a cloak of protection on the root if there was a security
breach.
       Well, such an event occured, and the OS cloaked itself to the
extent that I couldn't even log on to a vertual console.  The KDE
started behaving strangly, and I had to contend with all kinds
of work arounds. Mandrake offered online service that promised
a fix, for a fee, of course.
       I blew away Mandrake and installed Gentoo for free. So the
moral of the story is this: Think of a Linux Distro as champion
race horse. Sometimes accidents happen and the horse brakes
a leg. What do you do? You shoot it.

Michael Schultheiss wrote:

>erich wrote:
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>>The answer is yes, but it's not easy.
>>     That's why I blew away Debian and am now running 100% with
>>Gentoo. Engineering Gentoo is trickey. Let there be no misgivings.
>>As I have become more experienced at it, my job has become easier.
>>     The important thing to realize here is documentation. Documentation
>>for Debian is almost non-existant compared to Gentoo.
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>Documentation for Debian is available numerous places
>(www.debian.org/doc, www.debian-administration.org).  You can also ask
>questions on lists like these - people were attempting to help you and
>you apparently got frustrated and switched distributions in the middle
>of troubleshooting.  I don't recall you mentioning Debian before this
>message but if you had done so, I or any of the numerous other Debian
>users on this list could have better assisted you.
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