At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote: >I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is
Sorry about that. :) >Dpkg vs RPM RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we have apt (advanced package tool). It's a handler for dpkg, but it's intelligent. The killer feature is its ability to do *recursive upgrades of your entire box* in order, with dependacies. I had to use rpm once and I really felt hobbled by it's lack of information. For a real world example [TM], rpm tells you what *files* a package depends on while dpkg tells you what *packages* a package depends on. The latter is incredibly more useful. Another example, say you want to upgrade a package, but the new version depends on newer versions of other packages and maybe even a new pacakge. Apt will find out what packages you need, install them in order, and then install the package you want. Let's see rpm do that. Debian even has a utility to install rpm packages! So any custom legacy red had packs you have you can carry over into Debian. >Customization of the distro Very easily. You can make .debs to your heart's content. >Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart) > This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a > lot of mass installs. For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD, boot from that CD, and copy over the OS. Or you could even make a disk image and dd it onto the hard drive. That assumes you have the same hard drive in all the machines. You can turn a 20GB drive into a 10GB drive. :) But even if you have 4 or 5 different hard drives in your organization, using disk images will still save you tons of time. Thats what we do at GE, if somebody has a funky problem with their machine, we don't reinstall Windows and all the apps, we just reimage the hard disk. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | -=I T ' S P R I N C I P L E T H A T C O U N T S=- | |=- -=ALAN KEYES FOR PRESIDENT=- -=| | Balanced Budgets Personal Freedoms Morality Lower Tax | |=-- http://www.Keyes2000.com. --=| +———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————+
