Thank you all Debian is going to be my first test install then I will try some of the others as you all suggested and I will use Debian as the base to compare, I was leaning toward Debian from the start but wanted to hear some experiences...
Thanks again Rich :^) -----Original Message----- From: mdxi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:26 AM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How does Debian Linux compare to the "others" on Sparc On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:53:26AM -0700, Joshua Uziel wrote: > * Sharpe, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020904 04:49]: > > I was wondering if anyone has compared Debian to SuSe or Red Hat > > Linux and how does Debian stackup against those, I am ready to rid my > > sparc's of Solaris and am trying to find a good implementation of Linux, I > > use Red Hat on the Intel box's I have but have not tried any on sparc. > > Really, it's a matter of preference. Nobody can tell you what you will > like. Debian has a solid sparc distribution. SuSE's is pretty good as > well. People keep asking this question and I have always kept my mouth shut because I feel, as Joshua apparently does, that it is a fairly loaded and/or political and/or subjective question. But this morning I have decided to speak my mind. Please indulge me in a bit of history; I feel it's crucial to the point once I actually get there :) In my larval days, like almost everyone else at the time, I ran Slack on x86 hardware. But for the past several years I have completely eschewed Intel hardware completely, using various SPARC, PPC, and m68k machines to get my work done, and I have run Linux on all of them. My first non-x86 install was Debian Slink on a SPARCstation LX, and I have run Debian on every machine since then, but I have also played with RedHat, Yellow Dog, SuSE, and NetBSD. With the exception of Debian, every other distro felt distinctly "second-class", with some packages being unreliable compared to their x86 cousins, or just missing entirely. Installations were often rough and/or freakish compared to x86 (and I know this is largely inescapable (especially on old-world PPC) but Debian always felt dang smooth in comparison). Sometimes things just wouldn't work, and there was no sense from the documentation that it ever would. In short: Debian rules, given that you are the sort of person who doesn't want to be coddled by a shiny install/management system (which I personally feel is a waste of time and misguided effort) but instead wants to get work done, can read and think for yourself, and wants a distro that "feels" the same on any given piece of hardware. -- Shawn Boyette | He had reached the stage in a young man's life when [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the grimness of the general human situation becomes | evident; and the realization of this causes the | ambition to halt a little | -- Thomas Hardy, "Return of the Native" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]