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Subject: Re: RedHat versus Debian
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Date: 21 Oct 1996 06:15:44 GMT
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PC>Carl Renneberg (renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au) wrote:

PC>: I have RedHat 3.0.3 installed on my system, but for various reasons
PC>: I'm thinking of installing Debian 1.1.4 instead.
PC>: 
PC>: I'd appreciate hearing from people who have tried both RedHat and
PC>: Debian.
PC>: 
PC>: How do you think these distributions compare? If you switched from on
PC>: distribution to the other, what made you switch?

PC>We support the three main distributions (Slackware, Debian, and Red Hat
PC>at Cyclades, so I have had some experience with all of them.

PC>Some people claim that RH is easier to install than Debian, but I had n
PC>trouble with either.  Debian is targeted to the user with experience;
PC>it has a great package tool, but it assumes that you know what you want
PC>(The installation pre-selects a base set of packages that are required.

PC>Once you get them installed, then they work pretty much the same.  Some
PC>people have trouble with RH in getting a newly-compiled kernel to boot,
PC>but it's probably a case of needing to RTFM.

PC>RH has several paid people maintaining the distribution.

PC>Debian is maintained by around a hundred volunteers, each maintaining a
PC>couple of packages.  Upgrades tend to be quicker; bug fixes faster.

PC>Personally, I run Debian on both my home and primary work machine.

I just have a infomagic 6 cd rom sept 96 release in hand 
including RedHat 3.03 slackware and debian distributions. I don't
want to come across all but hard to pick one. I had a quick 
look at docs. It seems to me that RedHat supports in-place 
upgrade but with older kernel(1.2.13) while Slackware (kernel 2.0)
need to be installed from scratch when upgrading according to the
docs. My questions are: how difficult is it to upgrade RedHat's
kernel ? Can I use the sources with cdrom(2.0.12) to recompile 
the kernel and upgrade it to RedHat and other distributions ? can
packages from different distributions be across used ? Are these
packages share the some features ? If not, which one has more
features over the others ?

Any tips and info are greatly appreciated.




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