Re: help learning Debian

bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> I've always been a Slackware guy, but now I'm branching out into
> Debian. I have some administration skills, but Debian's way of
> doing things is new to me.
>
> Is there a good resource that explains Debian's workings from an
> admin perspective? Obviously, man pages are a good resource, but
> I need a resource that answers "What's the Debian way of doing
> _____?".
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>
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Greetings Bryan,

From my experience with the various flavors of Linux as well as the
BSD's, the biggest difference between the Debian distribution and all
the others is Debian attempts to adhere to the Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard (fhs). So, I suggest
you would do well to get a feel for the fhs and compare the filesystem
tree to what you have been using in Slackware. My understanding of
Slackware is that it leans toward the BSD way of filesystem layout.

Another area that is different from the BSD is the users and groups. In
Debian, each human user has an associated group of the same name. There
is no "wheel" group but there are groups such as "audio", "cdrom", etc.
to which human users must be added to allow them to use that particular
device. Some of the Debian based distributions may not follow this
pattern. Simply Mephis does not. In addition, I have found that the KDE
interface for users and groups assigns user numbers in the wrong series.
Human users are assigned user numbers beginning with 1000, so the
regular user that that one enters when installing a new Debian system
will have the user and group number of 1000.

Happily, vim is now the default editor, but sadly, Exim4 is the default
mta (I like postfix). The Debian package management system seems to be
the best all-round, but from time to time I find the system in some sort
of upgrade hell where I can't get rid of the old version and can't
install the new version of whatever is causing the upgrade-loop.

Enjoy!

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