Quoting Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> All but the most die-hard Debian users will generally agree the
> current
> stable installer is inferior to what you get with Red Hat, Mandrake, and
> SuSE. Indeed, I've been told that an improved installer is one of the
> big
> focuses of the next major Debian release. Given that Red Hat, at least,
> releases their installer under a full GPL, I would expect Debian could
> make
> use of much of Red Hat's work.
I believe that when Storm Linux went under, they GPL'd their installer. The
Debian group would probably go for that, since it was already built for a Debian
environment. It was also a really nice GUI, and fairly intuitive. The one thing
that I like about Debians current installer is that you can tell it to install
via FTP, and you get the latest packages and security updates from their site.
> As far as package management goes, I find Debian is a real mixed bag.
> Their build tools are no where near as slick as RPM, and who every
> designed
> dselect must have gone out of their way to make it counter-intuitive.
> On
> the other hand, APT is the best thing I've seen in the areas of
> automatic
> updates and dependency solving. I keep meaning to check out that
> company
> that got APT working with RPM, in my copious free time. :-)
I keep hearing about a tool called urpmi that Mandrake uses. If everything that
I have read is true (which I'm sure it isn't), it is supposed to be the best of
both RPM and APT. But, since I don't use Mandrake, I have no idea what all the
hype is about.
C-Ya,
Kenny
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