Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Nathan O. Siemers wrote:
> I strongly agree. I have personal convictions that debian is
> the higher quality dist, but I cannot reccomend it to the corporation
> I work for simply because of the install process and dselect issues.
>
The install is actually quite easy in the 2.1 release. Here is what you do
when you see the dselect screen:
- Choose apt access method
- Do the update (get list of available packages) (automatic).
- Leave the package selections as they are; don't even fool with the
select screen. (no effort here, this is the usual hard part)
- Install (automatic).
- Quit.
So it's all just pressing return, except for answering a couple of
questions when you choose the access method.
Then, apt-get install any other packages that you want. If you're
installing more than one machine it's easy to just make a list of these.
Or you can use gnome-apt to install more packages.
Long-term maintenance is much *easier* than Red Hat because you can simply
apt-get upgrade to get any security fixes, and if you want package foo
just apt-get install foo and it will magically be found on the internet
and installed. apt-get will also refuse to break the system; this is a
good thing. Many Red Hat systems end up every bit as broken as many
Windows systems.
Havoc
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