On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:38, Joe Polk wrote: > > Debian? Not with that attrotious installation routine. It's like masterbating > > with your elbows. Sure, it's technically possible but why do it? > > > ---- > I have never installed Debian but it can't be that hard - I've gotten a > little exposure to apt-get via freshrpms.net (thanks Mathias) and it > seems to be a fairly nice method of handling things. AFAIK this is like comparing apples and oranges. > I was thinking that fedora might offer Mathias a method for distributing > updates for a reasonable cost and make some money for himself but if the > cycles are short and built for cutting edge rather than > stability/backported patches etc., then it probably isn't the best way > to go. > > I'm not gonna espouse the virtues of Debian because many people can > articulate it so much better than I can. I learned on Red Hat, I am > comfortable with Red Hat but I don't sense the value of RHEL - given my > one experience for support was rather weak - the dreaded Intel 440GX > motherboards - and that has been a difficult problem for Linux in > general anyway. FWIW I have never installed debian but I know a lot of people who are very religious about how great debian is. Even they admit that the weak point of debian is is the hardware detection/installation. IMHO we are truely spoiled buy anaconda and kudzu. I know they are not perfect and have their own blemishes but they are a lot better than most other things out there. > I can see the point of RHEL - offices with weak sysadmins but that ain't > me. There are other reasons. Weak admins is not it for big corporations. If you truely think that is why companies plunk down big bucks for RHEL you do not understand the problem or the market. -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
