Doc wrote:
>
> On Mon, 6 May 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> It has the most godawful package selection interface - dselect - in
> Creation. "Tasksel", the alternative, and the commandline tools are
> fairly straightforward and easy, but dselect has frightened away many a
> prospective Debianista.
> Debian has a rep for being the "hackers' distro", and for being very
> raw. It does take more work initially to bring up a Debian install.
> After that, it's a no-brainer. Everything is done.
>
> The truth is, I like RedHat, if anybody besides me has root or
> "elevated" privileges. It's as close to a Universal Distribution as
> there is. And it has KickStart.
> I do Linux training, and a lot of it is on RedHat, so when I
> say it's easy to use, install and learn, I'm not talking through my hat.
>
> Doc
But like I have said Debian lets you install from a modem, Red Hat
does not. The big advantage of linux is that you can back up the
system. The disadvantage is that you can't run games or some software.
What pisses me off is the fact that both systems use dynamic libraries.
This makes a real mess of things. I liked dos -- you have a program
it runs from the .exe non of this you need version blah blah blah ...
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Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 09:13:37 BST