Re: Debian x Redhat
The advantage of Red Hat is commercial support and easy installation.
The advantage of debian is a truly stable platform with thousands upon
thousands of apps compiled for it.
Red Hat actually does have people you can call and talk with for help
installing or configuring a supported application.
On the flip side though they stop supporting the platform every year and
you are forced to upgrade to the next release. This makes Debian a
significantly more stable platform. Red Hat's free releases can be
thought of as beta code. Much like Debians testing or unstable
branches.
Whereas RH9 (RH8 and back too) does support apt it is not supported by
the company. It simply works on it. The repositories are significantly
smaller than Debian.
Given the choice Debian or Red Hat I would choose Debian unless you are
deploying to unqualified end users (not Linux people), are looking for a
job in Linux administration, or have a need for commercial support.
Bottom line though. Who cares. It's still Linux. It's not M$!
Pick your distro. Commit.
Chris
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:20, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> first of all, I'm not definetely willing to start a war here (although I
> think I have already). :-) I'm a very satisfied and enthusiastic Debian
> user, but I would like to hear from you guys the essential pros and cons
> of each of the distributions. I'm asking because for me the best thing
> about Debian (besides others) is the package manager system. Now I've
> heard RedHat 9 has something that resembles apt, which would put down
> this advantage of Debian. So, what do you think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruno.
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