Re: why debian?
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 11:33:25AM +0000, Ian Stuart wrote:
> 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..
Fortunately both distributions have much better ways of installing
these days. Yesterday we held an installfest at my university,
where we installed several Debian pre-2.0s, some 1.3.1s, some
RedHat 5.0s and even a FreeBSD 2.2.5, and didn't need anything more
than the boot disk for any of these.
hamish
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