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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Chandrashekar Babu wrote:
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>).
You could be right from your point of view dear but name me any distribution besides "Debian" where simply installing a specific software package makes it run fully functional then and there.
I'll give an example in Debian.
Hitting `apt-get install apache2` says you that apache2 required some more packages apache-foo*.deb and automatically adds it to the install routine for you. Is that complicated ?
Then the Debconf interface asks you simply if you want a hostname for the webserver, and you give "www.foo.com", the port and many more options later.. Is that complicated ??
As soon as the installation finishes you find that your webserver has been up and running (barebone only though) without even vi-ing any of the apache config files.. Woo! Is that complicated ???
How do you people describe the word "complicated" ???
rrs
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