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Carl Renneberg <renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au> writes:

> 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?

I bought the August InfoMagic release and installed RedHat 3.0.3 on my
PC.  It worked fine and was fairly easy to install, but there were a few
things I didn't like:

  * it didn't use the version 2.x Linux kernel
  * the X-server was apparently statically linked, chewing up gobs of
    memory
  * I found the graphical management tool (not the installation) to be
    counter-intuitive 
  * it didn't have lyx or xforms (which I wanted to try out)

I installed Debian 1.1.4, mostly to go to a more recent kernel.  I found
the installation more difficult but also more complete (lots of info
about dependencies, and giving you plenty of choices).  You can't
install directly off the CS either.  There were a few glitches, in
particular, installing 'apsfilter' fails because the printer lists are
compressed and the installation script expects them to be uncompressed.
My impression is that Debian is better organised, but also requires more
thought and knowledge.

Ciao,
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