On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> Slackware considered to be hard because you need to compile everything
> but if you do it right its the best ( so I heard )
> Debian is just another way to manage the Linux with deb and not RPM but
> considered to be superior ( the whole system )
I'm not familiar with Slackware (never used it), but as I heard, the
packaging system is quite primitive, and there aren't configuration
tools similar to RedHat's, so you end up learning to compile stuff
yourself, edit configuration files and learning sysadmining hardcode :)
Debian's main strength is APT, which allows you to install and upgrade
applications, libraries etc. right off the net (from one of the many
Debian mirrors) by issuing one simple command. APT will take care of
fetching and installing all of the dependencies and the package itself,
just like the Aduva Manager does on RedHat :)
(Of course, you can install packages from a local CD-ROM as well.)
With servers, you could use it to upgrade various daemons to the
latest versions regularilly to maintain security. As for today, Debian
doesn't come with as much config tools as RedHat, so it's not for total
newbies.
For example, instead of RedHat's RPM-hell, I can simply issue:
apt-get install mysql libapache-mod-perl php4-mysql libapache-mod-ssl
(this will also install php4 and apache, since php4-mysql and
libapache-mod-perl depend on them)
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Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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