Remember that distros can be merged. Using Red Hat or Mandrake, I installed using tarball. Using Debian, I used 'alien' to get RPMs into .deb format, and I still use tarballs.
I believe Alan Cox once used the term "Slackhat" as an example of such hybrids. My point is: you can pick distro X because you like how it installs, and then still use distro Y's upgrade strategies. Personally, I'd still say the best support site for Linux is www.tldp.org, the Linux Documentation Project. > Hi everybody, > > This might be off-topic, but Yves started it :) > > We're evaluating a professional platform that can run enterprise > applications. We need reliability, good threading, responsiveness, > stability, performance, but also easy management (if there's such a thing) > and good support. > > Sadly, the rest of the team is completely going the RedHat way, because... > it's supported. They have a yearly maintenance fee to help you out to do > stuff. What this stuff is, I don't know, probably things that you don't know > if you're not a linux/RedHat export. > > I am _definitely_ a debian fan and my gut feeling tells me it's better than > RH for sure. I really don't like the way RH charges you, the way it > installs, the way it's maintained... You get the idea. > > So could anybody give serious reasons as to why RH is bad, Debian is better > ? I've looked on Google but I didn't find a real serious report. > > Thanks a lot ! > > --Stéphane > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yves Rutschle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:21 AM > To: Raymond Wan > Cc: Angel; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: powerbook and debian > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 12:10:45PM +1100, Raymond Wan wrote: > > I have no experience with Mac OS, either, but I heard that the OS > > is based on Unix, so I don't see a reason for installing Debian over it. > > Surely, the same reasons as installing Debian over any > RedHat... > > Y. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
