On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:03:19PM +0100, Dr Gordon Russell wrote: > My University, Napier in Edinburgh, Scotland, has finally recognised the > attractiveness of Linux and are going to support it, provided we standardise on a > single distribution. Unfortunately this is not Debian. My boss has instructed me to > move to the new platform, and I have finished moving my first machine to RedHat. As > a consequence I have no Debian machines myself, and I guess I will have to focus > all my efforts into liking RedHat. > Now, having seen RedHat 7.3, our package manager is still miles ahead. Our > approach to config files is miles better too. However, the convenience of > getting rpm files from anywhere and getting the to work is nice, and I have > not been bitten by any inconsistances yet (time will tell). Having made the switch from Red Hat to Debian in the not too distant past, you have my sincerest condolences... :) Thank you for your long (!) contribution to Debian. You will certainly be missed. And who knows, maybe we'll see you back in a few years after the U finds out what an upgrade to a major release of Red Hat is like? :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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