Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.
At 07:29 PM 5/16/00 -0400, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>I'm a long time Red Hat user. Basically the company I'm working for is
Sorry about that. :)
>Dpkg vs RPM
RPM is a piece of crap compared to dpkg, and now we have apt (advanced
package tool). It's a handler for dpkg, but it's intelligent. The killer
feature is its ability to do *recursive upgrades of your entire box* in
order, with dependacies. I had to use rpm once and I really felt hobbled by
it's lack of information.
For a real world example [TM], rpm tells you what *files* a package depends
on while dpkg tells you what *packages* a package depends on. The latter is
incredibly more useful.
Another example, say you want to upgrade a package, but the new version
depends on newer versions of other packages and maybe even a new pacakge.
Apt will find out what packages you need, install them in order, and then
install the package you want. Let's see rpm do that. Debian even has a
utility to install rpm packages! So any custom legacy red had packs you
have you can carry over into Debian.
>Customization of the distro
Very easily. You can make .debs to your heart's content.
>Autoinstall (Red Hat's kickstart)
> This is also something fairly important. We need this as we do a
> lot of mass installs.
For mass installs, just make a standard issue CD, boot from that CD, and
copy over the OS. Or you could even make a disk image and dd it onto the
hard drive. That assumes you have the same hard drive in all the machines.
You can turn a 20GB drive into a 10GB drive. :) But even if you have 4 or 5
different hard drives in your organization, using disk images will still
save you tons of time. Thats what we do at GE, if somebody has a funky
problem with their machine, we don't reinstall Windows and all the apps, we
just reimage the hard disk.
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