Here's my 2 cents. This happened years and years ago, back in the days when the world was still Slackware, Red Hat was version 3, and Debian was bo.
I had a little 486 system with a couple small IDE hard drives. One day my root inode disappears off my / partition. I have a shoebox full of Slackware floppies, which I was going to use to load a bootable system onto a spare 100MB hard drive I had laying around. Of course most of my floppies had developed format errors since the last time I'd used them. Plus, at that time Slackware had uploaded a corrupt set of floppy images. Some people I knew suggested I try Red Hat. Well, at the time the choices for Red Hat seemed to be either to install from a CD (I had no cdrom drive) or download the contents of the CD to a partition and install from there. Debian, as I soon found out, has a single-disk installation program and a five-disk installation set, which included ppp support and the ability to install from a network connection. Everything past that point was just icing on the proverbial cake. On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a current RedHat user (started with Linux on RedHat because > it was available at Fry's), and I'm currently evaluating > Debian for a possible switch. > > Can anyone come up with a list of advantages of using Debian > Linux over Redhat Linux? > I would also love to hear any the weaknesses Debian has compared > RedHat. > > Thanks, > -- > John______________________________________________________________________ > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > icq: thales @ 17755648 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
