I should probably be clear... I am not a Linux user at all. If I was going
to use a Distro, it would be Slackware or Debian. I am a BSD user (among
other things) and I have no love for Red Hat, Mandrake, or any other
Distribution that attempts to dumb down the OS so that a lazy Windows user
can use it.
</rant>
OK, now it's time for my morning coffee...
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Justin Bengtson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:36 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:1611] RE: 2001, EUGLUG at the Magic Odyssey
>
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
> >
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