On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway.
Well....don't expect un-biased opinion :) I myself am very biased :) (but shouldn't you expect that....I am a package maintainer for debian ;) ) > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. It happens...wheat specifically did you NOT like about them? I was a redhat user on and off for a little over a year...after some hardware problems I decided to upgrade to RedHat 5.0 (which at the time had JUST come out). I had a problem ordering it (this was through no fault of RedHat's.. I have a very screwey "Debit Card" which is not a real credit card.. it causes problems everywhere). I decided that rather than resolve this right away I will look around. I found Debian and fell in love :) All the things I disliked about redhat (ever try to administer a redhat box without using X? I found it very tough...) > I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. > I like what I read about there package system and being able to upgrade > automatically from ftp sites. Yes if you can bear the download time :) Does a 120 MB download scare you off? ocasionally I tell it "Upgrade everything" and it says "Will need 120 MB of files..." (hint: start it and go to bed ;) ) CD works equally well :) > So anyone out there who uses debian now who used to use one of the > distro's, I would appreciate if you could tell me what you like about it > better. I like that its "cleaner" and more well documented. I am comparing to RedHat here. RedHat is VERY EASY to setup everthing... go into X and just a few mouse clicks and you have a PPP connection...hell... setting up PPP is easier than win95! Then try doing it through a telnet session....their network scripts were (I am thinking redhat 4.1/4.2) undocumented (AFAIK) and hard to figure out I had to completly resetup ppp by hand. In debian the setup is easy (but not X based) and works equally well in command line and X (which doens't always make everyone happy....like the other day I telnetted into my home machine from work and executed poff....because I wanted to call home and the line was busy...girlfriend who was online was not amused ;) ) > Also do you think debian will continued to be developed? I think it will be :) > I read somewhere that the head of the progect quite because he thought the > progress was not fast enough. Well I joined as a developer after that happend....but... as far as I can tell it was more just over some disagreements... lets face it...over 400 developers...we are all human. Disagreements will happen....and sometimes the time comes for people to go their separate ways. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
