Here's why I switched to debian over redhat and mandrake... There comes a time, even with redcarpet and that other tool mandrake use to find and install rpm packages (which never worked for me consistantly), that a given version of that product, just stops being maintained in any real sense - nothing new gets added and most (all?) of whats there stops at a certain point. While this is kind of true of debian (i.e if my sources.list was set to potato or woody, there'd be no (or little?) variation to the state of my system), by setting my sources.list to testing/unstable it just keeps evolving -all the way from potato to sid & I don't have to try and install or upgrade new redhat versions, which always resulted in a hassle - either way.
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 09:08, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 00:34, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > Dear Debian-users, > > > > An future project here will use Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL on a Dell server. > > > > The vendor will advocate Redhat, but Debian is the only linux I have > > used so that would be my choice. > > I will be supporting the box and os, they will support the app. > > > > I do not know the versions of the packages they will want to use, so I > > don't know if vanilla woody will be sufficient. > > > > I guess what I want to find out is, is there any reason why Debian would > > not be able to do the job that they are suggesting Redhat for, and what > > reasoning can I use to support my proposing Debian. > > [ ... ] > > The very first reason I would use: If you pay, you decide. Fullstop. > > I'm not an admin. I started running Linux with RedHat Linux about 3 > years ago or so on a single user machine, and I started running Debian > last summer for the first time. What I find extremely much easier on > Debian compared to the RedHat way is the way how system updates are > done. I found it extremely more difficult to update my system on RedHat > than on Debian. > > And I'd check very carefully prices that you possibly have to pay > nowadays for a RedHat system and its possible updates when they become > necessary. > > All in all I really enjoyed RedHat Linux until some time ago - minus the > difficulties regarding packages updates. > > But as I said: If you pay then you decide. > > Best Regards > Wolfgang > -- > Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
