[CLUE-Talk] Trying Out Debian

[Matthew Porter]

Timothy Klein wrote: 

> A previous poster talked a lot about apt-get.  Trust me, this will quickly
> become your favortie part about Debian.   So you want the Gimp, huh?  Well,
> 'apt-get install gimp'.  Walla!  You have the Gimp.  What's that, it depends
> upon GTK1.X and this, that, and the other?  No problem, apt-get just installed
> them all for you (asking you if that was ok, first, and telling you how much
> disk space it would take).  The latest security vulerablility email just hit
> your box, no trouble.  Make sure the security server is in your
> 'apt/sources.list', and type 'apt-get upgrade', any new packages are installed.
> I doubt I will ever be able to leave Debian unless one of the other distros gets
> something similar.
> 

This is one of the things that sounds great about Debian.

Question:  If the only 'net connection I have is a dialup, will it 
still be practical to do things like "apt-get upgrade" (or "apt-get 
install foo") from an online archive?  Or will I need upgrade CDs?

 --Matt.



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