Debian vs. Caldera
Here is my opinion on the different dist. of Linux that I have used over
the years.
Caldera Standard:
Great if you never need technical support, modifiy your system, or want
any documentation that is acurate. Since I do not know of anyone that
can say that, I would not recomend it.
Red Hat:
Good distrubution. Installs easy, has good documentation, is really
useable from the first reboot. It's update and packaging system is not
very good. I have had a lot of trouble upgrading the system from
version to version. Other then that, it works well.
Slackware:
Installs well, has very good doc's, and works well from the first
reboot. It has no upgrade capability, and is difficult to get X to work
just the way you want it.
Debian:
Installs well, has good doc's, and is very easy to modify. The upgrade
system works very well with the utilities available. I have upgraded
through mager versions with no problems. The only problem is when you
get to the first reboot you hav quite a bit of configuration to do to
get a really usable system. The upside of that is you have learned a
lot from the configuration and will have no trouble in the future
modifications.
I hope this helps, I have been lucky in the fact that I have had the
opertunity to run different dist. side by side for quite a while. That
gave me a chance to compare them well. Of course, this is only my
opinion.
Brian Schramm
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