Re: why debian?

[Liran Zvibel <liranz@math.tau.ac.il>]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Maarten Bezemer wrote:

> 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?

I use Debian, too. I like it very much. I think Red Hat has more publicity
since they can spend the money. They are a commercial company that can do
that. Debian are a bunch of volunteers that don't have a lot of money.

As for the rpm-packages - Debian can read those with the alian package.
Furthermore, Debian has twice more packages then RedHat (at least that
what the Debian peoples say...)


Liran Zvibel




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