well in my opinion, you cant really compare debian and redhat, except that they are linux. redhat is making the move towards desktop os, while debian has pretty much had its focus on "as stable as possible" os.. debian is as close as you can get to freebsd (again, imo)... i depeds on what you are looking for... check out www.distrowatch.com for info on different distributions...
--mat On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 11:25, Brad Bendily wrote: > > hehehe, true true! > I didn't really "need" anything, but some guys at > the office and I have been testing linux distros, > just for the fun of it. We thought that a debian > release 3.0 would hopefully be as sophisticated as > perhaps a Redhat release and be able to detect and > correctly setup our monitor and video card for the X Window system. > It was just a hope. About 5 other distros have been able > to handle this very well. Although the gdm package failed > during the install and I think i saw that the package > stands for "gnome display manager". I thought that I > may give the install another try to see if it can > setup the package correctly this time. > Just for posterity. > > -- > Brad Bendily - CNA > Network Specialist > > Southeastern Louisiana University > Phone 985.549.3643 > Fax 985.549.5777 > > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mat Branyon wrote: > > > to get it to work, the command is XF86config .... hope you know A LOT > > about your monitor and videocard (vsync, hsync, and video card > > chipset). im not sure, but it might have xconfigurator, which might be > > a bit nicer. who needs X anyway? you got mutt, vi, and bitchx, what > > else do you need? =P > > > > --mat > > > > On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 01:38, Brad Bendily wrote: > > > Isn't there some debian guru's on this list? > > > What kind of magic do you have to do to get Debian's > > > Xwindow system to work? > > > Mind you this is the woody version 3.0 of the www.debian.org > > > distro. We had a fairly generic test PC with a Geforce2 MX card > > > and the GDM didn't install correctly. After that it seemed that > > > everything went down hill. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Brad Bendily - CNA > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
