Frank Rocco wrote:
>
> Thanks Forrest,
>
> I also am swayed from magazines stating that redhat is the leader and all the
> debian based versions amount to 1% of market.
hmm...yeah since Debian by itself doesn't sell boxed distros.
> Is there a big difference between pure debian and Storm?
> Why would you want to give up Storm for Debian?
storm had a way better installer and more easy to configure for a
beginner.
other than that....
I gave up as well for a daily basis storm for Debian unstable(sid) since
I don't feel like recompiling sas at every dist-upgrade or so and
testing
is right now in too much of incipient phase to be really different from
potato(storm hail is based on potato).And there's a lot to play with in
debian unstable.
> I purchased Storm and redhat Deluxe versions.
> I need to return one tomorrow.
>
> Storm has a 20.00 rebate also.
>
Well..I would personally keep storm and upgrade to debian unstable.:-)
Reason for this(beside the obvious that I like debian more)
-RH7 shipped with an alpha compiler-unreleased and all binaries(rpm)
compiled
for/to RH7 aren't likely to work in other rpm based distros nor RH6.2
.This is according to usenet posts and a couple of friends running RH.If
you want RH then
get 6.2 or wait for 7.1(7.2 recommended).There is also the upgrade
thingy you know.
The new rpm4 feature is brand new so more then likely the apt-get
functionality
won't be without quirks.apt-get has a few years of testing and most
packages
are official so the risk of breaking apt-get is very small as opposed to
multiple
packages on the rpmfind.net .
-There is bsasically no easy upgrade between RH releases.Usually it
involves
backing up the /home ,wipe out and reinstall from scratch.
-Storm hail is a very good distro and you can installand configure it
way easier
than any Debian distro I've seen (I started back in 97 with Debian).And
you
can upgrade it to the Debian testing distro to get all the new stuff
without
too many problems(note -not without any problems).My system running
unstable is
actually quite stable-no crashes whatsoever.
That's prety much waht I can think about quick.
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