Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello! Nice overview of the different packages and versions in both distribution.
<snip> > So FC6 has a later kernel and C library, but Debian > has a later iceweasel (firefox). Almost everything > else is the same. The only difference is that Debian > SID is supposed to be unstable (but many people find > it stable enough to be usable), but FC6 is a stable > release. Unstable is stable enough for most end-users. I think people who are running stable Debian releases are the ones that need very high uptimes on their systems. Unstable is actually not bleeding-edge enough since it's meant to be a container for packages that will eventually be going to testing and stable trees. If you really need bleeding-edge packages OR packages that can't go to unstable yet due to restrictions (like the soon-to-be release of Etch which kinda stopping the GNOME 2.18 packages going into unstable), then go with experimental. Be careful as you have to know what you're doing before you can go experimental. > > So there, take your pick. In my case, I picked both! > He he he . . . I've been contemplating on moving to Fedora Core 6 this past few months because my Free Software idealism is pretty much aligned with Red Hat's (I'm still using Ubuntu during this time). But instead of moving to Fedora, I switched back to Debian *mainly* because of dpkg et al (Debian and RH has pretty much the same Free Software ideals so that's already been cancelled out). (People please don't make this thread an RPM vs. DEB flame thread. I just have a fetish with .debs. That's all. YMMV). -- They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages...but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install windows! _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
