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Carl Renneberg (renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au) wrote:

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

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

Some people claim that RH is easier to install than Debian, but I had no
trouble with either.  Debian is targeted to the user with experience;
it has a great package tool, but it assumes that you know what you want.
(The installation pre-selects a base set of packages that are required.)

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

RH has several paid people maintaining the distribution.

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

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

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