[lug] Install/Fix Fest on Sat.

[Wayde Allen]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:

> Next release, hopefully more work goes into the installation tools.
> That seems to be where the five minute reviews from "professional"
> reviewers seem to focus on, and it gets a thumbs-down from even the
> Debian folks.

Not all debian folks.  I kind of like the Debian install system.  It makes
more sense to me than most of the other systems I've seen.  I guess it all
depends on what you are used to.

> Problem is the darn package system works so well, you
> only ever see the installer ONE time.  After that, when a new version is
> released, it's simply "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" after
> editing one text file to upgrade a live system from one version to the
> next.  Services are restarted as needed, etc.  Only a replacement kernel
> package requires a reboot... nice.

Yep, pretty cool!  The only real complaint I have is that Debian doesn't
always have the latest and greatest releases available, but that isn't
anything the compiler can't fix.

- Wayde
  (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)