> Watching someone who has used other distros and can switch quite > comfortably between them to take over a running debian system is > rather funny ... they get to tear their hair out and sometimes wind up > putting a slackware CD into the machine and hitting reboot rather than > waste any further time figuring out stuff like just why debian has to > call exim's "configure" exim.conf and split it into multiple different > files scattered all over the place.
I would definitely prefer Slackware anyday, for its simplicity. The startup scripts and config files are more consistent with FreeBSD (on my other partition) But if given a choice between Redhat and Debian, I would prefer Debian (though I dont know much about Debian Sarge, I heard its getting more bloated than Woody or Potato). Of course, as you said, Debian has its own set of complexities (configuration tools, way too many config files thrown around, somewhat complicated installation and <gasp> apt-* and dpkg* tools </gasp>). Cheers, Chandrashekar Babu. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: thawte's Crypto Challenge Vl Crack the code and win a Sony DCRHC40 MiniDV Digital Handycam Camcorder. More prizes in the weekly Lunch Hour Challenge. Sign up NOW http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;10740251;10262165;m _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
