RE: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread David Pastern
Geno said: A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of the comparable low-documents SuSE package. Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake? Thanks. geno I'll babble about: Debian is slim, stable, and reliable. Need I say a

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"geno" == geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: geno> Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red geno> Hat, SuSE or Mandrake? All of these are good distributions. What Debian offers over the others is multi-architecture support, excellent software package management, a

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread steve
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:21:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund spake thus: > > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:08 -0400 > > geno

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:21:29PM -0200, Klaus Imgrund spake thus: > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:08 -0400 > geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price > > of the comparable low-documents S

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:14:08 -0400 geno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price > of the comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE > or Mandrake? > > Thanks. > > geno >

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
geno said: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of > the comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or > Mandrake? 1. Political points about being truly free may not matter that much but for man

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:14:08 -0400, geno wrote: > A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of the > comparable low-documents SuSE package. > Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or > Mandrake? The fact that people on the -user list

Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread geno
A 7-disk set of Debian costs approximately one-third the $50. price of the comparable low-documents SuSE package. Other than price, what is the attraction of Debian over Red Hat, SuSE or Mandrake? Thanks. geno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T