Re: Debian VS. Red Hat
I will be the first person to be completely honest in this thread.
I use Debian so I can take a higher moral ground over my friends.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan D. Proulx <jon@ai.mit.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2000 12:53
Subject: Re: Debian VS. Red Hat
>On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:39:20AM +0200, I. Tura wrote:
>: Actually I don't know your position in your work (I missed the full
>: thread)
>
>the reasons I use Debian:
>
>apt-get update && apt-get upgrade = bye bye to many common security
>worries (many Debian folks get hit with the statd exploit?)
>
>Debian upgrades much better in complex network environments (ie it
>will upgrade) where things like /usr/local and /var/spool/mail are
>links to weird automount point and thus dangling symlinks at boot
>time.
>
>Debian has many more "official" packages and can integrate rpm's and
>.tgz distributed applications into the package management system via
>"alien"
>
>Debian will not automagically clobber your confiles when you upgrade a
>package (rpms shouldn't but do with disturbing regularity in my
>experience)
>
>Debian allows for configuration during package installation, so you
>don't have to poke around so much to figure outwhat needs tweeking to
>make your nifty ne app working.
>
>Debian has excelent documentation included with virtually all packages
>(RH is poor, many common utilities with man pages in debian don't
>under RH)
>
>This list is perhaps the best reason, virtually everything I know
>about GNU/Linux came from this list (with reading HOWTOs, man pages,
>and hacking), and less than two years later I'm a Linux/Un*x admin
>(and a damned good one IMNTBHO) at a prominent research lab...
>
>Nmap doesn't identify Debian2.2 (yet) :)
>
>HTH,
>-Jon
>
>
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