On 05/06/03 bob parker did speaketh: > But during the course of it all it became very clear to me. With Debian if / > when you get anything working it is because you found out what you had to do > and did it. Sometimes that might be a little difficult but you have this list > for support along with any number of LUGs to help you through. > > With Mandrake most things work fairly easily but at the end of it you have no > real idea why. Mandrake is based on Redhat so I expect that it will be very > much the same. And of course with Windows you never have any idea at all > about what is going on during install or afterward for that matter.
Agreed, but I would point out that RedHat does have excellent online
documentation, and it's not difficult to figure out what's going on
underneath. While I love and advocate Debian when I can, I've found
problems with the documentation on the website. When I was looking at
how to create my own .debs, the docs in the developers section
referenced tools that aren't used anymore (to my knowledge).
I find frustration in both worlds, but the big difference between
Linux and Windows is that if you want to know what's going on, you _can_
find out, regardless of the distro. That's not typically true of
Windows.
Mike
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