Karl J. Runge writes:
>On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have been told countless times that I should be using Slackware, I've
>> noticed that RedHat is the standard, and Debian is getting there, and I
>> like the sound of Turbo... so recently I played with a few distro's on
>> my laptop (Toshiba 2410XCDT, K6-2/450/64/3G)and have come back to what I
>> have been using, simply because it works... Here are my results:
>
>I understand that is too much to ask: but if you could even speculate
>(not necessarily now) on the long-term maintanence, upgradability, ease
>of adding 3rd party programs, compatibility, etc, I'd find that very
>useful.
>
>I sense myself wanting to get off of Redhat after using it for the past
>3 years, perhaps going to Debian or back to Slack... it would be nice
>to hear of the longer-term gotchas of these relative to RH.
I switched from Slackware to Debian about four years ago. I remember
that after running Debian for a while, I got a very clear impression
of the difference between the two. With Debian I felt I was getting
the benefit of an experienced sysadmin who was helping set up each
package "the right way". With Slackware, by comparison, I was
basically on my own. Of course, things have probably changed since
then. However, I doubt that any of the commercial distributions spend
as much time on each package as Debian.
- Jim Van Zandt
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