On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 11:04:45PM +0100, Steve George wrote: [Please include line breaks within paragraphs and leave a blank line between paragraphs]
> - More 'standards' compliant in the sense that I found that when I read > the HOWTOS in many cases the RH stuff wasn't in the places it said it would > be (because they specialise stuff for their tools) whereas it was on Debian. > I am NOT slagginf RH I understand why they did this, I just wanted to get > my hands dirty and it was easier with Debian. All distributions do this to some extent. > - The update feature and package management frontend. I believe RH has > a tool which allows you to update to the latest version of an RPM buit the > Debian version is great. APT allows me to get my system upgraded > automatically. Doing a distribution upgrade without *having* to reboot is rather nice. > CONTRA: > - More stuff is done in the RPM format. For example the GNOME stuff > tends to lag a bit. OTOH I was always worried where the RPM's were > coming from whereas Debian tends to be more under control. I've never actually found this to be a problem, particularly with the unstable distribution. I currently don't have any non-Debian software on my machines that isn't either commercial or a local hack. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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