Debian and Red Hat

["Michael W. Ryan" <mryan@netaxs.com>]

Don't ask me why, but I'm considering trying out Debian.  It's not because
of any specific dissatisfaction with Red Hat, it's just that I keep
hearing so many good things about Debian, I figured I should try it out.

The catch is that I have only a single system at home, and it would not be
proper for me to use one of my systems at work to try it out.  This means
that I need to have a functional system at home.  To that end, could
someone (it can be more than one) OBJECTIVELY compare the features of the
two distributions.  I tend to see alot more support for RPMs for various
non-standard packages (XEmacs, WindowMaker, etc.), but I suspect this may
be because Debian has a more centralized distribution point (a point I
like, BTW).  For example, will I be able to get Debian packages for
XEmacs, WindowMaker, Python, etc.?  Please don't point out alien.  I am
aware of it, but I'd rather use native packages instead of a converted
package (which depends on the author of alien not missing any subtleties
of the various packaging schemes).

I'm not interested in philosophies.  I'm interested in a functioning
systems.

Michael W. Ryan, MCP          | OTAKON 1999
mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/

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