\begin{Jeff Waugh}
> > Can people comment on the differences between the two. Both the lay out
> > of the file system and the its package manager.
[...]
> Hopefully a fairly balanced view.
yep. what he said.
just some free advice:
the usual behaviour for someone new to redhat seems to be to choose the
"install everything" option.
don't do this for debian, you really don't need ~11 web servers ;)
just install the minimum - what you need *today*. since apt-get(*) can
trivially install new software when you realise you needed them.
basically, do a "lazy" install and amortise the cost of answering all
those questions. it'll then do what you want, when you finally want it
and you'll end up liking it even more ;)
(*) or better yet aptitude or deity-{curses,gtk}. apt-get is a
power-users tool and debianites should get out of the habit of
advertising it to people who don't even know what they want to
install yet. (just say "aptitude install spamassassin" instead ;)
(my opinion: redhat is a company, debian is a community. all the
usual pros/cons of each are manifested in their products)
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