i know this was directed at Tim, but i'll pitch my $.02 in. several reasons debian is better than redhat : 1. apt is the poop! 2. you can get the kernel source through apt easily. 3. debian is still packaged with afterstep (no idea about RH) 4. with debian, you can have an entirely "free" installation. 5. they give you the above option during installation. 6. debian isn't a corporate entity, unlike redhat. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ade Talabi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [EUG-LUG:1610] RE: 2001, EUGLUG at the Magic Odyssey > > Tim Howe, > > I do hear a lot of about how good the Debian distro, is. Apart from it > having an easy intsall routine, > no-one has ever mentioned anything else. > > Is there anything else apart from that, when compared to RedHat 7.1? > > Tim Howe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said thusly on [17/07/01 at 19:04]: > > > Actually there are special cases, at least one anyway. OpenBSD is > free for > > all and under the BSD license, but the CD layout is copywrite Theo > DeRaat. > > You can make your own CD with all the same stuff on it, but you can't > copy > > one of the official CDs. The reason for this is that the CDs fund > > development. This has come under fire from the Slashdot crowd, but I > think > > they are wrong and Theo is right. The funding he has used to do > development > > has done wonders for the security of every free OS, including commercial > > versions of Linux (OpenSSH anyone?). > > So, OpenBSD CDs would have to be done custom. Also, doesn't Red Hat > and > > some others ship with commercial software for Linux? I don't think > that's > > legal to copy. If we do Debian CDs, we should probably include some > install > > instructions, the last version I looked at was confusing, and I install > > OpenBSD all the time. I still think of Slack and Debian as the two > "pure" > > distros. ...but I digress... > > > > --Tim > > > > > > ================================================================ > | Ade Talabi | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | ::SELLFOTO:: | Web Page: http://www.net-africa.com | > ================================================================
