RE: Debian vs. Red Hat
hi ya
i say ( my silly opinion )....
- give the customer what they want....( convincing um otherwise is usually
futile after 5 mintues of say why one is better than the other
examples i point out.... ( preferably with them sitting there for first
hand experience....
- ask um what they expect the server to do...
- price/performance ...
- what is its primary function
- what is the backup plan when any server dies
- show them the uptime of the various servers
( hopefully doing the same work load
- show them how hard/easy to upgrade the kernel...
- show them how to upgrade/install more sw
- show them how simple/hard it is to create a new box....
- show them what is "broken out of the box" installs
- somebody has to go fix it to get it to work
- show them how many bug reports exists
- show them how long it takes to reply to a "bug report" or "security
advisory"
- show them how long to wait for email and/or phone support
- show them how much it costs to maintain the box at a particular level
of performance/reliability requirements
- how to update pkgs ( manually or automatically )
- show them stuff that is included in one distro but NOT in another
... have fun convincing um or ignore their ignorance and stay on their
... good side till the enxt manager comes rolling in the door...
... at which time you can change things than...
all of the distro has good and bad points.... just depends on what
the situation is...and how much they willling to spend...
have fun linux'ing
alvin
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> It's to anyone, I've mainly used Debian, because of it's stability, but our
> ISP has a contractor who's opinion is "Red Hat's the best, thats why they
> are so popular." I want to dipute this, but I need more than just my own
> opinnion to justify it. I need stuff I can use and justify, to be able to
> use Debian.
> I need you guys to go above and beyond for this one. Then We can say a
> national ISP is A Debian Company!
>
> Wayne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David.Middleton@eracom.com.au
> [mailto:David.Middleton@eracom.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:16 PM
> To: waynes@iexalt.net
> Subject: Re: Debian vs. Red Hat
>
>
>
> Debian versions correctly follow a release cycle and tend to have very few
> exploits as well as being less buggy.. We have the same problem here.. If
> you get any really good arguments send them to me to please. You get
> better package granularity in debian. You have a much nicer internet
> upgrading system with apt. You can get the same support for debian as
> red-hat from VA. Red-hat is far more flashy but prone to screwups where
> debian is the conservative, slowly evolving platform (if you only use
> stable/frozen). Debian doesn 't have a bunch of arbitrary and stupid file
> locations. I only have debian at home and there is very little that I
> can't do on it.
>
> Dave
>
> PS: Was that to Zealot??
>
>
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