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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
