[Gllug] Debian

[Bruce Richardson]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 8/28/01, 10:08:00 AM, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote 
regarding [Gllug] Debian:


> I just wiped Mandrake off my 486 at the weekend and installed Debian. I
> was a bit hesitant because of what I'd heard about Debian being
> difficult to install but it went amazingly smoothly.

Congratulations, you are now part of the elite and may not refer to other 
distributions without either spitting over your shoulder or repeating the 
mantra "But it doesn't have apt".

> apt-get to install new stuff is pretty good, though I've not exactly
> found dselect to be very intuitive.

Try aptitude.  Much better, though not finished.  Also both KDE and Gnome 
have GUI frontends for apt.

> I've noticed that RedHat seems to be used for servers a lot. Is there a
> technical reason for this, or is it just because RedHat aggressively
> targets server sellers?

You can't buy a support contract or a boxed set from Debian.  Red Hat 
also has name recognition.  When we started buying Linux rackmounts, my 
colleagues had heard of Red Hat and were reassured.  I put Debian on them 
anyway.

-- 

Bruce

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