On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:42:21 -0700, 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. > > 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. > > I can see the point of RHEL - offices with weak sysadmins but that ain't > me. Dumb question time, but no one has said anything about Mandrake? Are Debian and SUSE the only options? -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
