elwing's Journal: OK maybe Debian isn't so bad

Well, Lethyos and I upgraded his gateway/firewall, ender, to connect to my DSL modem last night. Went a lot smoother than my first attempt had. He's a big Debian fan, and I'm not. A while ago, I let him talk me into putting debian on my firewall, well, pppd was very broke and wouldn't update my firewall scripts or my dyndns hostname when the IP changed. I told him to fix it. He never did. So it's still broke, and I'm giving it to my mother tonight. But when we went to set up pppoe and ddclient on *his* gateway, everything works fine. Maybe Debian isn't so bad after all.. Other than the fact that if you install anything from source whatsoever, you're screwed. I have a really bad tendancy to install things from source.

Now I have a new firewall in my apartment in preparation for him moving in. Now we have to figure out how in the world we're going to partition our servers (we have 4 computers each).

Debian + Source = Happiness

[Lethyos]

There's nothing wrong with installing source on a Debian box! Just make sure no packages for whatever program you're installing are in use on the system. Also, make sure that your `make install' scripts don't clobber system stuff. The last thing you have to worry about is seeing to it that your programs play nicely with SysV init stuff. :) I will make a convert of you yet! Submit to Debian!

Debian has advantages afterall

[rafelbev]

It took me long to fall in love with Debian, but in the end I choose it over any other distro quite blindly nowadays. The text install maybe putting off, but hey, it works.
I am no Debian zealot, but I have to admit that it has its good points too.