Re: DEBIAN or REDHAT ?
Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently using hamm and am very happy with it. I will be
> installing a new Linux system soon but everyone is telling me to install
> RedHat 5. Has anyone any opinions on this? I tend to be partial to
> Debian, especially with GNOME being integrated into hamm. However, I've
> never used Redhat.
>
> Also, I've been advised that RedHat puts out security fixes the next day
> after a CERT advisory is released. How is Debian when it comes to
> security and other patches? When I was using bo, patches weren't released
> very often. Is this an indication that RedHat is more buggy, or is it an
> indication that Debian is more stable? For example, when the CERT
> advisory for SSH-AGENT was release over a week ago, one of the OSes that
> responded to the CERT advisory was RedHat. Much to my dismay, Debian
> wasn't one of the OSes that was mentioned on the CERT list. I ended up
> compiling SSH on my own.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or tips.
>
Personally, I find RedHat to be incredibly irritating. Every time I've
installed it, I ran into problems. Stupid things, like LILO not getting
installed because the kernel was dropped into a different directory than it
should have been. And their X tools are ugly :) I've been a die-hard Slackware
user for ~3 years now, but I recently switched to Debian. It's completely
free, _very_ standard, and updates/patches are put out much more often than
with Slackware. One of the most irritating things about RH is that it is the
most visible Linux distribution, but is so poorly made- you end up going into
what feels very much like a "No, I don't use Windows 95" conversation with
people who aren't linux literate.
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