In a message dated: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 07:16:57 EST
Bruce Dawson said:
>tom r wrote:
>> I'm thinking of replacing my Red Hat with Caldera just because Redhat seems
>> to think that they can assume it's a Redhat world. I want everyone to
>> assume that they can't assume anything about the target machine. "Free
>> software (free as in speech) means that big market share just means that
>> you are doing it right. I'm gonna delete every rpm I've got and insist on
>> source tarbals from now on.
Then don't you really want to switch to Debian, Slackware, or SuSE.?
Caldera, last I heard, was based on RH, and used RPMs. Did they change?
>Strange. That's one of the reasons I switched from Caldera to RedHat!
>(Other reasons were: RPM-based systems are easier to maintain, RedHat was
>cheaper,support was more accessible, RedHat wasn't trying to control
>everything.)
I switched from Slackware to RH a long time ago (RH2.0) primarily because:
RH enabled me to use X (finally, couldn't get it working under slackware back
then).
Side benefits were much easier installation as compared to any other
distribution, and RPMs.
That being said, there are a lot of shortcomings with RedHats distribution,
unfortunately, my complaints really aren't answered with any other
distribution, so switching isn't going to solve anything. I think RH is the
best out there at least from the standpoint of "ease of installation *and*
price".
Debian I've heard is a lot better organized from the file location standpoint,
but their installation is horrendous, and they ship with really old kernel/
libraries. SuSE's installation isn't much better, and I wasn't thrilled with
the way they dictated partition sizes (if I want a 64MB / partition, I'm
entitled to have one! :)
As for Corel, Caldera, and most of the others, I don't know too much about any
of them to voice an opinion.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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