Horst Herb wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 May 2001 20:16, Trevor Kerr wrote:
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>>Is Debian inherently easier to maintain?
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> Bloody oath it is! Takes significantly more time to set it up, but you get
> your time back, big time, with huge interests. Not only that, but you also
> keep your system stable, no broken dependenvies.
>
I confess to not having used Debian, but I have used SUSE,
Mandrake and RedHat, all of which have updaters, not to
mention the new Gnome updater, which also handles red hat.
While I use them religiously (for example, I was patched two
months before the recent LPR attacks began), they are not
fool proof. Furthermore, you really don't want to use them
over a 56K modem link. For a minimal server they are all
probably going to do the job, but for a dynamic workstation
with tons' of software installed on it, too many things can
go wrong. Just the other day, after a series of Gnome and
Mozilla updates, both the Gnome/Moz intgegration broke and
for some strange reason netscape 4.77 refused to run. I
fixed the one and understand the other.
