Right. I'm running all woody (unstable) at home and on a couple
test boxes at my office. Problem is management is looking for some
"studies" and the like I can point them to showing a comparison.
Things like which distro "stable" release has more bugs, speed of
release for bug fixes, security fixes and such.
Thus spake dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:33:21AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> |
> | I'm looking for a study/comparison of RedHat vs Debian. We have a
> | number of boxes, some production, which run everything from RedHat
> | 6.0 and newer. I'd like to look at converting to Debian stable but
> | need to justify my case before I can even formally suggest it. I've
> | started listing my own reasons and issues but need more. Any good
> | suggestions or comparisions already done?
>
> Debian stable is quite old. I used to run RH (started with 5.2 but
> it didn't like my video card, then used 6.1 and 7.0 with lots of
> manual upgrades inbetween). I don't remember which version of GNOME
> they ship with, but potato has only 1.0.55. There are a lot of other
> things that have been updated since the release of stable. However,
> stable is really stable and a good platform. When the next stable is
> released (woody) then you can easily upgrade every package you have
> using 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. If you have a need for newer software
> than is in stable, you could run testing. I don't know if it is
> generally recommended for production use, but I use it on my
> workstation at home. It has been really stable for me -- I haven't
> had any problems with it. I much prefer Debian's package management
> and development philosophy to RedHat's. (They also don't use broken
> compilers and libc's on supposedly stable releases) While Debian
> stable is rather outdated, the people who want the latest stuff have
> it by using sid instead. For the most part RH doesn't provide new
> packages until the next release is labeled "stable". Debian also
> provides security updates to stable (install via 'apt-get') and has
> many more packages than RH. There were some apps that I wanted, but
> couldn't get to compile on my RH system. When I installed potato I
> found that they were already included!
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
>
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