Hi,
I'd like to give debian (testing branch; I believe it's called sid) a try, but
wonder about the following:
Is is glibc 3.x based? I tried in vain to look through the package list and
found no mention of glibc.
How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the
iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to function
differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the actual
packages.
Are there significant differences between the RH and the debian file structure
(as in, more in /opt and in /usr/local? RH has almost nothing there)? Can I
use the same /etc and /var for both? (obviously /home and /tmp can be shared,
but I guess that /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, ... can only be shared if all are
based on the same libc & glibc major version)
Thanks in advance. I searched throughout the debian web site but couldn't find
straight answers to these questions, and I found very little info comparing
these two distros. (no flaming, please, I just want to try one more distro.
ducking ... ;-))
Arie Folger
--
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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