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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU> wrote: (article <38F9E9C6.D3EF9E8C@holly.ColoState.EDU>)
> You elitists need to stop slamming Red Hat!  Each distro has its
> strengths and weaknesses.

Yup.

I probably just had bad luck with Red Hat.  I couldn't even get it to
do simple things, like run Netscape or view PDF files.

But there were two things I really loved about Red Hat:

 - Installing is fast!  It can take less than half an hour for a full
    install...  With debian, it usually takes me 2-3 hours, at least.
   This is mostly because RPM merely unpacks files during install,
   rather than also configuring them and being anal about dependencies.

 - The provided config tools (print setup, etc) are great if you don't
   want to do anything "funky" with your system.

> Debian - Get down and bow to the gods of open source.  I second the
> sysadmin heaven remark, but you have to actually be a sysadmin.  No
> linuxconf, etc. to hide the gory details.  And actually, I tried
> installing Debian 2.1 recently.  The setup program is now a POS.  2.0
> used to have some nice little preconfigured systems so you could skip
> the Select step in dselect, but now it doesn't.  The select step is fine

Eh?  You must have missed it.  The install procedure for 2.1 is almost
identical to the install for 2.0.  But I agree, dselect is a pain.

However, dselect is dead.  Have you tried debian 2.2?  The gnome-apt and
console-apt tools are wonderful...  The only thing I've seen which comes
close is the SGI "swmgr" program.

It might be worth mentioning that Yellow Dog will soon have a package
tool similar to debian's apt, and it will likely end up as part of Red Hat.
It should be quite cool.  (anyone have a Mac?  Try Yellow Dog!)

:)

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