On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> 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 know that Potato comes on 3 disks (binary only). That's just
from main, not including contrib or non-free. (Netscape is in
non-free, freedom relating to speech, not cost). Woody has
many more, including the latest KDE stuff (based on the GPL'd QT).
>
> 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.
If you stick with the release version (Potato, or 2.2), it's very
stable, because they do quite a bit of testing prior to release (in
fact, I know of at least 3 test cycles on Potato because they caught
problems). Just make certain your sources.list includes the security
updates (it does by default).
If you run with the unstable version (Woody), well, it's
unstable. You have been warned.
>
> 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. :-)
>
>
Can't argue with that advice.
jeff
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