Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] The Debian Choice...

 

Is Debian good for beginners?

Is Debian a rolling distro?

regards

sophie

Am 10.04.2014 19:33, schrieb Scott:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:32:15AM -0700, jferrell13@triad.rr.com wrote:
>
> > I am still a Linux beginner that started with Raspberry Pi after
> several false starts several years back. I am not a rookie with
> computers in general. I have been using Debian Wheezy for the Linux side
> of the Lab for quite a while now and am comfortable with it. There is
> nothing unique to the current install. I would like to move the system
> to a dual boot with Windows XPPRO. I understand the easy path is to
> install xppro first and then add the Linux distro.
> > I consider this to be a long term system and I am wondering if there
> are things in the Linux world that Debian cannot do?
> > John W8CCW
>
> Debian is a pretty popular distribution, and should be able to do anything
> other distributions do.
>
> If doing longterm note that MS is ending support for WinXP and so there
> will probably be no more security updates after a certain point this year.
> It's still usable, but I don't know how vulnerable it will be.
>
> --

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