Re: New User - Debian?
Date sent: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:35:39 +0000
From: Allens <allen.asjp@cableol.co.uk>
To: Debian-User list <>
Subject: Re: New User - Debian?
> Allens wrote:
> >
> > Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > >
> > > Leonardo Bermudez wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux
> > > > yet.
> > > >
> > > > I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current
> > > > version is 2.0.
> > > >
> > > > Before I download the 2.0 version and install it on my P350 PC, I
> > > > would like to know what other options with pros/cons do I have
> > > > beside Debian and RedHat?
> > > >
> > > > I'm just installing to learn and for curiosity, i had some
> > > > experience with sun workstations and solaris so i'm not afraid of
> > > > the unix enviroment, just to wipe my HD (AGAIN ) :-) Regards
> > > >
> > > > Leo
> > > >
> > >
> > > A significent number of people would say that RedHat is
> > > 'easier'
> > > to install then Debian, but after the install, Debian is better.
> > > Debian has what I believe to be a better package management system
> > > (dselect/apt/dpkg) than RedHat, but the bottom line is it comes down
> > > to your preference.
> > > Why not get RedHat and Debian 2.0 on CD and try *both* of them
> > > and use the one you like better. You can get very inexpensive
> > > CD's of both from places like http://www.cheapbytes.com.
> >
> > Whose real address is http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/cheap.html
> >
> > Peter Allen
> >
I am a newbie but chose debian as it looks like being better in the
future. After installing debian I had a go at Redhat and came back to
debian as each distribution is different ie., Redhat, slack, caldera,
etcetra and I didn't want to learn another set of rules as I would have
needed to do with Redhat.
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