Hi, >> Hi, >> >> I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be >> installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install >> RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to >> Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've >> never used Redhat.
I have just switched from RedHat 5 to Debain 1.3.1, The main difference between the 2 is the installation routine. I personally think that RedHat's is better, but Debain seem to configure more on installation. >> Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day >> after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to >> security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released >> very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an >> indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT >> advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that >> responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian >> wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up >> compiling SSH on my own. I have alos found that it seemed a lot of the packages avaliable under RedHat 5 were broken or just didn't work properly, so I had to get on the net and down load all the updates, which I don't particulaly expect to have to do when buying a commercial release of Linux. This maybe true but RedHat are a commercial organisationwho are paying people to write and fix code, Debain is not. At the momment I think that Debain is the better distribution for me anyway, but I do miss some of the tools avaliable under RedHat, like the control panel, and glint but I can live without them. >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or tips. Its all really personal choice, I prefer Debain my Friends like RedHat. The choice is yours, but if you can I would try both. Graham >> -Ossama >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> --- PGP Keys --- >> Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc >> REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc >> >> >> >> -- >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] . >> Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
