On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Randy Edwards wrote:
> Quite true. And, if I may add, Debian still has the largest number of
> quality-standards-checked software packages available for it of any
> GNU/Linux distribution.
How many megabytes is that? The number of packages is somewhat misleading,
as Debian breaks a lot of things down into several packages that RPM-based
distros usually only use one or two for. For example, I think there were
close to 20 different Netscape packages in Debian 2.2. Red Hat 6.2 uses
three.
I also find the often-touted "quality" of Debian is be somewhat over-hyped.
Rather like OpenBSD's often-touted "security". Debian does pay more attention
to quality, just like OpenBSD pays more attention to security. It does not
mean that either effort really makes that big a difference. In my personal
experience, I've had far more problems with any Debian release than with, say,
Red Hat 6.2.
On the other hand, any time I see a Red Hat product that ends in .0, I
usually dive for cover. Maybe I'm just picky. :-)
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