29 Oct
2011
29 Oct
'11
11:41 a.m.
Rick Moen wrote:
My own current favourite way to install Debian is Aptosid (formerly Sidux). Live CD with installer, comes out every quarter.
IMO if its package archive master isn't hosted on <foo>.debian.org, it isn't "real" Debian; stuff like aptosid and grml are just as much Debian *derivatives* as Ubuntu (cf. "pure blends") -- they just happen to be less divergent (at least, for now). Whether they're in some way *better* is, of course, a separate issue. (As for me, I usually use syslinux to load the d-i netboot installer via PXE or USB, and then pull everything else (including the udebs) from the local deb mirror over HTTP. Who even HAS an optical drive anymore? Fing o' der parst!)