It's package handling is supposed to be great. That is, ease of installing
and keeping track of installed programs...
But you should probably ask a Debian user.
Tim
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> Ade Talabi
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> 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
> >
> >
>
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