RH Veteran is now a Debian Newbie

["Michael B Allen" <mba2000@ioplex.com>]

Hello,

I just got a "linode" UML VPS over at linode.com and booted debian 3.0r1
2.2.24 on it. I've been using RH 7.3 and it's been a very solid distro
for me but I feel like I'm being left behind at this point. Whenever I
update a package I have to get the source from their latest packages
and rebuild. So I thought I'd try debian as it seems a little more
consistent. Is this true? Is 3.0r1 glibc 2.3. How is support for
UTF-8 locales? Etc. What surprises can a RH user expect?

Off to read about dpkg ....

Thanks,
Mike

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