Re: Red Hat vs Debian, installing a POP server. Security

> But Debian is deficient in some significant ways too. I don't like the way
> it interrupts the installation to ask about little things, like whether I
> want a load monitor running in colour or monochrome. I don't like the way it
> leaves lots of hardware for me to configure manually. I don't like the way
> the stable distro is too old to work well with hardware that's shipping when
> it's released (e.g. Debian 3.0 doesn't support the Intel ethernet adaptors
> that were on the motherboards I purchased around the same time).

Debian asks you when you first install it what level of prompting you'd
like - right down to completely silent if you'd prefer it to stick with
defaults and e-mail you when it's done.

The stable distribution can easily be run with a newer kernel. make-kpkg is
very helpful in this. The Linux kernel isn't tied to userspace in quite the
same way as it is in FreeBSD, for example. In any case, running 
vendor-supplied kernels is usually a bad idea if you're serious about running
a Linux-based system.

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