Re: Need Reasons for switching to Debian from Redhat
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 14:48, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Kirk Strauser">
[snip]
> depends ....i have many redhat systems that haven't been touched
> in probably 2 years. they still run ..no updates or anything since
> their initial install. of course officially i made everyone aware
> i was not going to fix systems that are not maintained. most of them
> are in the state that they are because the people using them are
> scared they might break(good reason i suppose) ..
I wonder how many security holes are in those unpatched systems?
They have VERY good reason to be afraid of breakage. I would go
so far as to call RPM Windows-like: easy to work with at first,
and easy to do simple stuff, but hard stuff is REALLY hard. Thus
the phrase "RPM Hell"...
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