On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: > While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've > long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to > be more readily available (leading to the (possibly) mistaken view that > RedHat is the more prevalent - and thus preferred - distribution out
No, it's just that rpm is prevalent. There are at least 2 or 3 other distributions that use it. > there.). (Oh, and the few times I've tried using alien, etc. to install > RPM's under Debian, the attempts have failed miserably - possibly > user-related, but non-the-less....) I never had much luck with that either. I did switch to RedHat 5 since there are several commercial applications that are packaged in rpm format and alien choked on them. -- Stuart Krivis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]