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Re: SlakWare or RedHat?



On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Ira Abramov wrote:

> - I have ZILCH experiance with Debian, but I admit I have yet to meet a
> Debian user that doesn't like it.

Excuse me, but what's zilch? (dumb question, but I really don't know:)

> - RedHat DO have fast and efficient updates, organized in a separate
> "updates" directory for easy mirroring, without confusing you by putting
> them all in the main install directory until the next version, correct me
> if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure it is the same with Debian.

Debian has "unstable" directory for this purpose.

> - most of RedHat's installation IS GPLed, the tools are freely available
> and reusable, and you can have it for free, the official version costs
> more but also contains valueable commercial products(!).

Can you get the sources of the packages you get?  (not the .tar.gz of the
program, but the source of .rpm).  Well, you can get a source of .deb
files in "[un]stable/sources".  BTW, stable and unstalbe are symbolic
links to another directory, for example, "stable" now is a link to "rex",
it seems.

> - this financial support helps RedHat standardize Linux on Sparc and Alpha

Debian does the same thing.

> - RedHat's support is fast and efficient, competing succesfully with
> Email/list/newsgroup volunteer support.

Well, yes.

Believe me, I don't wanna start Yet Another Holy War(tm), because I don't
think that holy wars between Linux distributions is exactly what we need
now :)

w/Respect,
Vadik.

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