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Re: number of packages in RedHat



On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:

> > also, you said it yourself, Debian is much more professional, and
> > installed by people who know what they are doing, while RedHat is supposed
> > to be KISS... whystack too many options on the newbie installer?
> 
> Because this isn't a toy machine, people are supposed to USE it, not
> just install and run Netscape, that's why I think the more there is a
> variaty of packages to choose from the better.  The same reason nobody
> complains about the variaty of software (applications and games) for
> Windows.

not a very good example, Microsoft's installation of win95 doesn't have
too man packages at all!


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