Re: debian and RH

1999-02-28 Thread David Z. Maze
Ben Cornett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BC> A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian BC> to be technically superior to the RH distribution. I was BC> wondering if anyone would care to elaborate on that a bit for me. -- Debian packages only depend on other packages. AFAIC

Re: debian and RH

1999-02-28 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Ben Cornett wrote: > A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian to be > technically superior to the RH distribution. I was wondering if anyone > would care to elaborate on that a bit for me. Currently I am running > RH5.2, but I am

Re: debian and RH

1999-02-27 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
In a nutshell, RH has the easy install method, debian has the easy upgrade of individual packages method (i.e., apt-get install package.deb. Debian is also a bit more stable. I think, that the support in chat rooms and mailing lists is far superior as well. On the downside, sometimes packages a

debian and RH

1999-02-27 Thread Ben Cornett
A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian to be technically superior to the RH distribution. I was wondering if anyone would care to elaborate on that a bit for me. Currently I am running RH5.2, but I am thinking of switching over to Debian once the final version of slink