Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
Hi,
I can't see how RedHat can offer any more drivers than any other distrib because everyone is working from the same source..
All standard drivers are in the kernel source and all distributions use it so therefore all distributions have the same number of drivers.
The only things I can think of are:
- maybe redhat offers some binary drivers that were developed under NDA. I don't think this would be in their standard distrib as they have been vehment about only having Open Source stuff on their main CDs. They did once do some work on X servers, think it is out of date now, mebbe this is where you heard it.
- perhaps redhat has more drivers compiled into their initial bootdisks. Since as part of the install process you can select modules etc this isn't the same thing at all.
Hope this helps,
Steve
On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 02:44:52PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote:
> I am sorry that I cannot list specifics. I thought I had read in the
> journals that RedHat offered the most drivers when comparing Linux
> distributions. I may have had this confused with packages, I.e. RPM. I am
> pretty sure it was drivers though. Sorry I can't offer more specifics. Can
> anyone else ? If I am wrong, please tell me !
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Teague [mailto:dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu]
> > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 8:40 AM
> > To: Paul McHale
> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: RE: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
> >
> > > If you have bizaar hardware, redhat (I believe) has more drivers.
> > > Redhat has more packages but this may be an arguement for alien.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > I have acquaintances who never did get X up under Red Hat using the
> > SiS6326 card. That card is apparently S3 based, but SiS does
> > something really bizarre with it.
> >
> > However, one of my students got X up (late last
> > winter) with Debian after a bit of fiddling. He replaced the 3.3.2 X
> > server with the 3.3.3.1 server, then modified the XF86config file to
> > make the thing work well.
> >
> > I understand that RH 6 has 3.3.3 X. I don't know about specific
> > SiS6326 support.
> >
> > I would like to have a comparison of device support available from
> > Red Hat with that from Debian. Can you address this? Or perhaps
> > someone on this list can answer this.
> >
> > --David
> > David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
> > Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
> > useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
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