Re: Problems with Redhat 9

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 01:10:09AM -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> I don't believe that Debian is the enterprise solution to Linux. It is built
> for the maintainers by the maintainers. It is a hacker OS, and it differs from
> what people are used to enough to be a struggle for admins, engineers, and
> users to grasp easily. It is a GREAT OS, but I just don't have faith that it
> fits the general public.

I disagree. I think that in many cases (identical desktop/shell
environments) most end users can't tell the difference between different
unices; let alone different linux distros.

the differences that matter are mostly apparent to the admins. There are a
limited number of ways to do things right; and both RH and Debian both make
some pretty sensible choices in things like their filesystem layout. (I'd
posit that Debian makes better choices, but that's my opinion).

yes, debian is a 'hacker OS'; and it sometimes lacks the nice balance
between stability and up-to-dateness than RH usually has; but isn't that
nice RH balance what's causing these problems now? (they can't afford to
support the old balance points because things change too much).

I would also posit that by the time Debian Stable is obsoleted by the newer
release of it; it's usually time to upgrade anyway because the software is
so much improved since then. (since it takes 2 years for a debian stable
release to come out; and the software developers aren't making patches to
their old versions anyway).

Carl.
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Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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