Re: General linux question.

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
João Pinheiro wrote: > There are quite a few differences between them. The most notable one > would be the packaging system, .deb vs. .rpm, where Debian really kick > the hell out of Red Hat. Some of the core packages have some substantial differences as well, such as the network management scrip

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:18:34 +0200 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2005 04.20, stephen horvath wrote: > > > I do have a question that I have not received an answer. > > What is the real difference in what is referr

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread João Pinheiro
There are quite a few differences between them. The most notable one would be the packaging system, .deb vs. .rpm, where Debian really kick the hell out of Red Hat. - João Pinheiro stephen horvath wrote: > Help, > > I have used the Linux programs for quite a few weeks and have decided > to use

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 17 October 2005 04.20, stephen horvath wrote: > I do have a question that I have not received an answer. > What is the real difference in what is referred to as Red > Hat based or Debian based? As you've certainly noticed by now, the actual application programs (KDE, Gnome, The Gimp, O

General linux question.

2005-10-16 Thread stephen horvath
Help, I have used the Linux programs for quite a few weeks and have decided to use it for all of my personal computing needs. I have used two distrubutions and have liked them both, one is Red Hat/Fedors and the other is Xandros. I do have a question that I have not received an answer. Wh