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Robert Hart wrote:
> 
> [Posted and mailed]
> 
> In article <3267E660.26C7122B@alpha2.curtin.edu.au>
>         Dimitri Maziuk (Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au>) writes:
> 
> > As for Debian vs RedHat, it seems that people with more unix
> > experience prefer Debian, and newbies prefer RedHat.  Debian
> > is a very well thought out distribution, and debian-user mailing
> > list is extremely helpful if you run into a problem.
> 
> Hmm - I do not want to get into an OS (well, distribution) war here,
> but I would love to know why you thionk this is so?
> 

[ ...long live RedHad... ]


Yeah, yeah, ok.  I believe I also mentioned in that post that I 
haven't seen latest and greatest distribution of RedHat (I may be
wrong -- I don't have copy of that -- but I certainly meant to.)
So, here goes.

When I last saw RedHat it did not have package dependencies.  
I believe they have 'em now, with all the associated benefits and
problems.

At that stage it would automagically install all the software you
needed, in most cases fully configured.  Including cron scripts
to rotate logs.  I would expect the same functionality from RedHat 4
now.

As a Debian user I am subscribed to their mailing lists and can 
comment on them.  I can't (and didn't) comment on RedHat's user
support.

I also like the idea of Debian being closely tied to GNU.  

Rgds
Dimitri
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