[MLIST] Re: [olug] linux web server management ?

[David Walker]

Well there is some room for argument/discussion here

windows install =
1. discover name of program you are interested in
2.  locate program on internet or on cd
3.  download, unpack, and locate setup.exe in the unpacked files or in the CD 
directory
4.  setup.exe

apt-get install =
1.  discover name of program
2.  apt-get install "name of program"

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 03:00 pm, bbrush at unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
> >apt-get install apache
> >
> >This grabs all dependencies and installs them.  Have you tried to do
> >something similar with one command from the command line in any other
> >distro?  It brings on fits of rage.
> >
> >Another machine is a fileserver with samba.  From the base system:
> >
> >apt-get install samba
> >
> >That's it!!!!  Instant dedicated system!  So wonderfully easy I could
> >almost wet myself.
>
> Settle down Beavis, that's a TMI if I ever heard one.  :-)  This is all
> well and good, but which is easier,  the apt-get command or d:\setup.exe?
> If you're honest, the setup command is easier.  You don't have to know
> anything to start the install other than where your new program is.  With
> apt-get you have to know the apt-get switches and more importantly what the
> package is called. (I'm not trying to take a shot at you I'm just stating
> my opinion).
>
> Furthermore what I'm interested in with Linux is not a server, but a
> workstation.  I don't run file sharing and web servers on workstations,
> that's what servers are for.  How about something useful for a general user
> like Gnucash?  Or some other personal finance manager?
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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