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Dave Head wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2004 07:02:04 -0800, gururajan20815@yahoo.com (Gururajan
> Ramachandran) wrote:
> 
> 
>>Do you know of any stores in Reston that sell the official
>>"stable" version of the Debian Linux CDs (7 CDs - Woody 3.0r2)?
>>
>>Thanks,
> 
> 
> Uh, 7 CDs?  For an operating system?  Why does this need 7 CD's, when the
> supposedly world-reknowned bloatware king, Microsoft, delivers their latest OS,
> Win XP, on 1 CD?

Um, I installed "Woody" and it was an extremely hellish task and I've 
been doing Linux for Ages And Ages.

Only about 1 CD is the OS. The rest is "packages", RPMs for those of you 
who are RedHat devotees. Buttloads of applications, a few gigs of them.

Why was the installation so hellish? Well, aside from <trade secrets 
redacted>, the package-selector installation tool is _emacs_.

Only insane geniuses use EMACS, and I am not a genius.

Debian "Woody" does have an excellent if somewhat weird tool called 
"apt-get", also in Gentoo, IIRC. It's sort of a super-enhanced RPM with 
lots of error prevention.

But if you install "Woody", you better install a kernel of linux-2.4.25 
or better, because the one it ships with has an exploitable memory 
problem, which took down most of Debian's whole distribution and support 
site.


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