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On 23 Oct 1996, Andrew Berry wrote:

> 
> 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

But upgrading to use it is quite easy by installing the correct set of
updated rpms.

>   * the X-server was apparently statically linked, chewing up gobs of
>     memory

A problem, but there is a new rpm (quite large though).

I think both of the above are fixed in RedHat 4.0.

>   * I found the graphical management tool (not the installation) to be
>     counter-intuitive 

Maybe - I used the text (dialog) install and rpm from the command line.
It's fine once you are used to it.

>   * it didn't have lyx or xforms (which I wanted to try out)

xforms at least is available as an rpm file. I would be surprised if lyx
wasn't as well.

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