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"Michael W. Ryan" wrote:
> 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.
I have experience installing and using Slackware, S.u.S.E., RedHat,
and Debian. Debian is rock solid. Ease of installation is way up there,
but you may not find it _quite_ as easy as RedHat to install.
Debian has all the packages that RedHat has, and many more by far.
Its release-to-release upgrades are the most extraordinarily painless
I've ever seen. Once you've got some version of Debian installed on
a given system, I can imagine very few reasons why you'd ever prefer
any other distrubution:
1. You've installed a state-of-the-art video card, and there's
only X support for it in S.u.S.E.
2. Branding is valuable to you, and you want Red Hat.
3. There is no #3.
Peace,
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