How good is debian pls tell me

R

finally i have decided to switch over to linux from windows... Debian is the distro i always wanted... in simple words pls tell me how good debian is as compared to other distros ?... the main reason i am switching over to linux is that most of the work that i do is "C" oriented... i just need windows to run visual studio.net 2005 and oracle 9i(because of the training else i would have killed this tooo) for that i have a seperate hdd i was worndering if one can install debian in one partition without dedicating an entire hdd for it... Does debian support rpm's ? Do software developers provide binaries for debian ? Pls help me out...

Thanks in advance...

rustam_singh said:
finally i have decided to switch over to linux from windows... Debian is the distro i always wanted... in simple words pls tell me how good debian is as compared to other distros ?... the main reason i am switching over to linux is that most of the work that i do is "C" oriented... i just need windows to run visual studio.net 2005 and oracle 9i(because of the training else i would have killed this tooo) for that i have a seperate hdd i was worndering if one can install debian in one partition without dedicating an entire hdd for it... Does debian support rpm's ? Do software developers provide binaries for debian ? Pls help me out...

Thanks in advance...

Use Debian testing(Etch) GNU/Linux.It simply overrules other distros.Thanks to dpkg(.deb) package manager of Debian compared to rpm(.rpm) in other distros.it contains more upto date packages like firefox 1.5**,Gnome-2.14 etc.just now i finished installing Etch via netinstall method.Yes you can make a ~7/8 GB partn and install debian.There exists few IDE's for C/C++ programming in Linux,the One which I use is Anjuta.you can select and install packages in Debian using Synaptic Package Manager.Debian for x86 is having most packages made for i386 for all intel 32-bit processors.Only Kernel is having optimizations for individual types like i686 smp etc.below is my /etc/apt/sources.list:

Code:

root@sputnik:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060622)]/ etch main


deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060622)]/ etch main


# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb *security.debian.org/ etch/updates main  contrib non-free
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
#deb-src *security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

# Testing Etch
#deb *http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb *debian.linux.org.tw/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# Testing Proposed updates
#deb *debian.linux.org.tw/debian/dists/etch-proposed-updates/ testing main contrib non-free
# Testing Sources
#deb-src *http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

# Marillat For info visit *www.debian-multimedia.org
deb *www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

# WINE
deb *wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

# The Opera Web Browser Official packages.
deb *deb.opera.com/opera/ testing non-free

Best of Lux

Now-a-days, people are preferring Ubuntu over debian. Debian's development have been pretty slow. Contact GNUrag for more info

Debian is ``THE'' distro

As of right now, there are 17,000+ packaged, precompiled binaries available with latest testing release `Etch' With these many number of packages available, you'll never need to get hold of any RPMs ever. Imagine, the entire Stable distribution of Debian `Sarge' spans 14CD sets.

In case you are going to install something on say, your laptop/home desktop where you want things to ``Just Work (TM)'' then give Ubuntu `Dapper' a try ... The only issue with Ubuntu is it needs an active internet connection to bring it to full throttle.

Debian is very good distro. It's very secure. Also comes with lots of applications like
GNurag told you. Debian uses '.deb' package manager, not RPM. You can also try
Ubuntu , which is also based on Debian. Using the 'Synaptic Package Manager' you
can download lots of software from their repositories.

ya ubuntu is a cool distro installing new softwares is very easy.

M

Also you have Oracle for Linux. And .Net can be done by mono compiler though you will miss intellisence there.

any links for oracle??

M

You can download Oracle Express Edition for free from here *www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html
Here's the home page of Oracle Databases *www.oracle.com/database/index.html

Yea heard so much about debain now....but still dont wanna give up my Fedora box! It rocks too!

^^ I gave up my FC5 box for kubuntu!

R

thank you all... if i have anymore querries realted to debian or any other open source software, will put em up inn here... once again thank you all, i have chosen debian...