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Re: SlakWare or RedHat?



On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Vadik V. Vygonets wrote:

> 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:)

"I know -nothing- about debian instalations"

> > - 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.

for each RPM there is an SRPM, including for the rpm binary itself, of
course...

> 
> > - this financial support helps RedHat standardize Linux on Sparc and Alpha
> 
> Debian does the same thing.

does what? take money or work on Sparcs?

> 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 :)

same thing I said... I want to install now RedHat 4.0 on my station just
to get the feel of it, and then probably scratch it and install Debian to
get to know it, and probably for later work as a production station.


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