Giving Debian a shot

After, well, messing and learning a lot about Linux through Gentoo... I am gonna give Debain a wee go...

(Will I ever just settle on a distro? )

I have (been bored in work) read the apt-get howto... I have already tried installing it today (did successfully with a woody net install disk... but I have failed with the sarge net install as I cannot seem to get it to load the network module

Anyway, I think I will install a very basic woody and then upgrade it using apt-get... so, I have a quick question...

So far, I have been installing (with gentoo) just the bleeding edge of packages... you would think that this would alleviate most problems (upgrading = more features + better right?) but unfortunatley not.

So my question is, what package versions should I install to get wineX + wine working fully, as these seem to be my main culprits... I am guessing you are gonna tell me to avoid the latest glibc (seems to be the main problem) and possibly xfree 4.3.0 (which I am prolly gonna avoid anyway as I want UT2003 to work.)

Yet again, if I get everything up and running right, I will post an install guide... which will be made redundant once laclasse releases his sager specific debian install (iso?)

Anyway... cheers again

NeoCORE

Already tried mandrake 9.1rc3 (I think it's 3...) which apparently pretty much was the final release.

It's good if you want a quick easy install with tonnes of apps... but I prefer to customise

IMO, better than RH