Re: Debian and Red Hat

[Christian Grigis <glove@earthling.net>]

	Hello,

	Probably not as elaborated an answer as you would like :) , but
regarding the packages you are concerned with, yes they all exist in the
Debian distribution. If you want to check out for more packages, you can
have a look at:

	http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

	Also, note that up-to-date Debian packages for KDE and Gnome are
usually available on their respective home sites (www.kde.org, www.gnome.org).

	Hope this helps,

-Christian

On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 11:21:13AM -0400, 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.

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