I am sorry that I cannot list specifics. I thought I had read in the journals that RedHat offered the most drivers when comparing Linux distributions. I may have had this confused with packages, I.e. RPM. I am pretty sure it was drivers though. Sorry I can't offer more specifics. Can anyone else ? If I am wrong, please tell me !
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Teague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:40 AM > To: Paul McHale > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat? > > > > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > > > If you have bizaar hardware, redhat (I believe) has more drivers. > > Redhat has more packages but this may be an arguement for alien. > > Paul > > I have acquaintances who never did get X up under Red Hat using the > SiS6326 card. That card is apparently S3 based, but SiS does > something really bizarre with it. > > However, one of my students got X up (late last > winter) with Debian after a bit of fiddling. He replaced the 3.3.2 X > server with the 3.3.3.1 server, then modified the XF86config file to > make the thing work well. > > I understand that RH 6 has 3.3.3 X. I don't know about specific > SiS6326 support. > > I would like to have a comparison of device support available from > Red Hat with that from Debian. Can you address this? Or perhaps > someone on this list can answer this. > > --David > David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, > useful, technically accurate, and friendly. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
