I also graduated from Red Hat. Debian installation is a beast but it leaves you with a working system that is idiot proof. Red Hat is an easier installation but things fail and you're left trawling the net resolving dependencies.
Patrick ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Duggan Dieterly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat? > > Patrick, > > I graduated from Red Hat to Debian twice. I was hard-headed and did not > learn the first time ... gave it a second chance. I came back to Debian. > > The ONLY thing Red Hat has is an easy install ... upkeep of a Red Hat > system is a nightmare. > > > > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > I'm not a techie so this is a user's perspective. Red Hat is just as free > > as Debian so there's no issue there like there is with SuSE and Caldera. > > There are far more Red Hat users out there and lots of RPMs. So give it a > > try and decide for yourself. I use Debian because its so easy to keep it > > stable, because I think apt-get is way way easier than rpm and because the > > support offered by this list is great. > > > > Patrick > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > George Bonser > > "When someone annoys you, it takes 32 muscles to frown, but it only > takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and smack them in the head." > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >