Paul, > > > It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's > > stability, but our > > ISP has a contractor who's opinion is "Red Hat's the best, > > thats why they > > are so popular." I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own > > It is my experience most people feel whatever they are familiar with is the > best for situation. I don't think I know *that* much about debian. I do > know .deb is worlds better than .rpm. When it comes to debian, you are > talking to the choir.
However, dpkg is worlds slower and takes up worlds more memory than rpm. > The install of debian was (is?) pretty painful. Compared to redhat, it is > monumental for the uninitiated. I recommend Storm or Corel for the > installation challenged. I think their install easily rivals Redhat. It > can't get much easier than Corel. Storm is not far behind. Both > (especially Storm) offer apt-get (auto install and maintenance of packages) > with a high degree of debian compatibility. I had a rough time installing Corel and my boss wouldn't even allow me to install Stormix. On the other hand, it took me about 5 minutes to get a good working Debian installed. Things that are easy to one person are not to another. > Just my biased two cents. Mine too. Cheers, Chris
