%% Hal Burgiss <hal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
hb> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:15:42AM -0500, Wade Chandler wrote:
>> Yeah, so what is your flaming RH hate mail about again? Is it Fedora or
>> End Of Life cycle for old Enterprise Software?
I in no way flamed RH, nor did I say I hated it. I think it's a pretty
decent distribution overall. There are parts that annoy me, but parts
of Debian annoy me too.
I merely stated:
* Debian existed before Red Hat.
* Debian is more reliable in general than Red Hat.
* Debian is a more stable, trivially upgradable distribution than Red
Hat.
* Red Hat has much more corporate acceptance than Debian.
I don't think anyone who has spent time administering or maintaining
both distributions will feel that these are inflammatory
positions... points 1 and 4 aren't even open to discussion: they're
facts. The "trivially upgradable" point I don't think can be argued
with either. So that leaves only the "stable/reliable" points, and I
don't know how anyone can say that Debian releases are not more stable
than Red Hat 5/6/7/8/9 overall.
That's not to say Red Hat doesn't trump Debian in other areas: the above
is not meant to be an exhaustive comparison between the two. The points
of comparison were the ones the OP raised, not me.
hb> You (or someone) snipped this:
>> Well, maybe Debian, but it was way off the radar screen.
Yes: I was confirming that it not just "maybe" Debian existed in 1997,
but in fact "without question" Debian existed in 1997... not only that
but Debian existed before Red Hat did.
I also don't necessarily buy the "way off the radar screen"; it depends
on how you got started in Linux. For example, LUGs were a popular way
to get your feet wet back then, when even the most user-friendly distros
required a healthy chunk of hand-holding for the uninitiated, and many
LUGs did and still do have lots of Debian users.
It was certainly not as well-known in the press and it didn't have boxes
in the local computer bookstores, that's true.
Cheers!
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