Michael B Allen wrote:
Hello, I just got a "linode" UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1 2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages and rebuild. So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more consistent. Is this true? Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. How is support for UTF-8 locales? Etc. What surprises can a RH user expect? Off to read about dpkg .... Thanks, Mike
Woody is actually glibc 2.2 based. Other than that, yes support is very consistent. You can get package sources yourself and build them (say, if you want to run xfree86 4.3 on Woody), you can find back ports of newer packages, or you can just stick to the packages in the distro. -Roberto
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