Re: [TCLUG:19794] Downside to Debian?

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

^chewie wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:07:50PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > > installed and yes, apt-get is fabulous); but I want to know of the
> > > downsides I might not be aware of. Are there any? Has anyone used
> > > hardware this slow and upgraded the kernel to a 2.2.x version, and
> > > is it the 'win-lose' proposition I expect it is (more modern but
> Heh.  You don't get it?  Might it be that you're trying to uncompress
> a -9 gzipped tar file on extremely old and crochity hardware?  Might

Dunno about -9, but plain tar/gz goes much faster...

> uses Perl extensively and that you're relying on Perl to interpret the
> installation scripts (sorry unavoidable).  Hmm...  Interpreted

This doesn't seem to be the slow part... :P