Re: debian vs others

1998-08-27 Thread George R
On 08/26/98 at 09:00 AM, Rick Knebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. I like what >I read about there package system and being able to upgrade >automatically from ftp sites. Well, I started with Debian, went to Red Hat and came back to Debian

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. Debian is my first Lin

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread the lone gunman
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > So anyone out there who uses debian now who used to use one of the > distro's, I would appreciate if you could tell me what you like about it > better. I used to use Slackware -- no real package management system at all. I did everyt

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. > I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. > I like what I read about there package system and being ab

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread chris
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. > I have used various distro including redhat, caldera and suse and have not > been really happy with any of them. > I

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I know it is kind of silly to ask what is better debian vs redhat on a > debian list but here goes anyway. Welldon't expect un-biased opinion :) I myself am very biased :) (but shouldn't you expect thatI am a package m

Re: debian vs others

1998-08-26 Thread jdassen
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: > Also do you think debian will continued to be developed? Yes. The current developer count is 405. > I read somewhere that the head of the progect quite because he thought the > progress was not fast enough. That's not a very accurat