On 12/07/2013 11:58 AM, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 12:41:47PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
And these people actually _argue_ with me. DamnSmallLinux is The Right Thing because they can boot into the installer and hit the spacebar with their foreheads repeatedly and arrive at a (feeble, limited) Linux installation. Therefore, it's the right choice, say they.
Ah, okay. That explains something I'd never really got before - "what's the point of DamnSmallLinux and other tiny-distros when a debian base install is also tiny but gives you instant apt-get access to tens of thousands of extra programs already packaged as well as a dev team of over 1000 people, many of them first-rank experts in their fields?".
Simple ... Debian netinst is the way to go, use that all the time. Install over ssh, as minimal as possible, then add what you need later. Cheers A.