But will it install php with calendar support ( for example ) or mysql with
hebrew sorting ?
Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> 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)
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov
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