What kind of software did you install? Did you include X or configuration tools? What sort of network apps? One of the many things that I prefer about Debian is that it has a very minimalistic installation (arguably, the others can too) and the software is very stable.
It just often seems to me that the other distributions include a lot of crap that you really don't need, which eventually leads to system clutter and security vulnerabilities that shouldn't have existed in the first place. Regards, Cade Cairns On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ian Bruseker wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Cade Cairns [mailto:cairnsc@;carbon.net] > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:22 AM > > To: Calgary LUG > > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) <rant> > > > > > > uhm why dont you run debian or a more server-centric distribution on your > > servers? > > > That's quite the amusing statement considering RedHat is only now claiming > to have even noticed the desktop. I thought they were supposed to be a > server O/S, and things like Mandrake "relegated" to the desktop. After all > my irritation with SuSE yesterday, I thought I'd revisit Mandrake as a > server O/S, putting 9.0 on that machine in question. Not only was it a huge > improvement over the last version of Mandrake I put on that machine in terms > of speed (8.something was the last one I tried), but also it had all the > server-class software I wanted available to me (though I think I still have > to recompile a kernel to get bridging to work - if I do, the list might get > some questions). My point? I dunno, just talking. > > Ian >
