Re: why debian?
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote:
> > I was just wondering if anyone can tell me why so much people use Red
> > Hat linux?
> As a newbie to this arena, my impression is that RedHat has a better
> public profile.
>
> As we all know, public profiles & reality often differ...
>
[snip]
> RedHat is easier to install initially (it's only 2 floppies as opposed
> to Debians 6+), however the updating system in debian (dselect) is _far_
> superior..
I installed Debian 1.3.1 even without any floppy (one actually, the boot
disk created after the install to boot the new system)
Just booted from CD and all went quite easy. If your system didn't support
IDE/ATAPI-CDROM boot, you only need the first (rescue) floppy, the drivers
disk is on the CD.
Someone told me there are far more rpm-packages available, and other
distributions also use rpm. What's true about that?
Greetings,
Maarten Bezemer
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