On Thursday 29 December 2005 10:52 am, Ka Winter wrote:
> > This is getting damn flustering.
> > The objective was to make a small MySQL server of
> > basely a telephone directory
> > of clients for our business.
> >
> > What I have firmly established is that doing such
> > with the current disarray in
> > Commercial Linux distributions, Red Hat, SuSE, and
> > Mandriva, that that is not
> > possible for anyone on the lass that guru level.
>
> It is very possible to set up a computer with less
> than guru level knowledge of Linux. The average Suse
> or Ubuntu disk will happily install and autodetect
> hardware and automatically give you a desktop and a
> decent array of packages. Plain Debian is not
> considered a distro that a "less than guru" might want
> to install.
>
> But the beauty of Debian (and some other distros) is
> that it is completely configurable to your needs. It
> does not assume anything. It allows you to choose
> exactly what packages to install so that unlike
> Winders it is not loading a media player and office
> suite when you wanted a web server. But with
> flexibility comes complexity.
>
>
True but then you deprive your self of Kbear, Kfish, and KOrganizer just to
name a few items. Also consider if one access a MySQL server from OpenOffice
2.0 with both Open Office and MySQL in the same box you eliminated one set of
issues, network, in verifying the operation of the server. Damn good idea if
you are uncertain is what you are trying to do will work. One you have
established functionality then you can call trash removal.
SOTL
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