On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:32:03PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > So will a slackware with the 2.2 kernel and glibc2.1 beat debian and > redhat?
That depends. If you think it will, then it will. If you think it
won't, then it won't. Each distribution is a sum of its parts. No one
individual part being at a higher revision over some other distribution, in
and of itself, will cause one distribution to be better than another. At
home I run my Laptop on Debian 2.1, my "main" machine on some portions of
Potato. My main machine runs kernel 2.2.1, my laptop 2.0.34. Functionally,
they are identical to one another. I telnet in, I run X aps, no big deal.
They work. I really can't tell the difference between the 2.2.1 machine and
the 2.0.34 machine based on that alone.
By the same token, I don't feel that such things will make much of a
difference in distributions. For me, Debian is better than Slackware
because it has a packaging system, I'm now familiar with where Debian stores
files, etc.
Sure, for the "latest and greatest" jockies, Slackware will beat Debian.
For people who live in the real world and use their machines as more than
power toys and status symbols, I don't think so.
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