Adam Thornton wrote:
It's been my favorite distro for a while for several reasons: first
is that it's less encumbered than SuSE or Red Hat, although it HAS
gotten a lot easier to get free trial versions from them. Second is
that you can install a useful Debian machine in a much smaller
virtual machine than SuSE or Red Hat...this is less true with Sarge
than it was with Woody, but you can still actually get work out of a
64MB system with 500 cylinders of disk. Third, I think apt/dpkg is a
much, much better packaging system than you get with SuSE or Red Hat:
apt-get is so much easier to use than YaST that it makes putting
together a development system a breeze, and after that putting
together an appliance (which is a minimal system with my software
dropped on top) is also a breeze. I adore apt.
The more I've looked at Debian's website, the more I'm inclined to go in
that direction. The link that Mark Post provided was quite useful; I've
been a RedHat/Fedora user for quite a few years, and I was intrigued by
the existence of a Fedora Core port for the mainframe! But Debian sure
sounds like a more stable, mature alternative.
I've downloaded the Debian/S390 install files, and I'll give that a try!
Eric
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