I also have to weigh in on this thread. Comparing RedHat to Debian is like comparing Campbell's soup to home cooking. Or maybe it's more like comparing Velveeta to a fine Brie. Some people recoil at the fact that there are trade-offs to be made when profitability and time to market become major engineering constraints. Some people are willing to accept the trade-offs for convenience and industrial-grade consistency. I'm personally too impatient to wait for Debian to get some of things right that are imporant to me (say - installation, or MH?) and too busy these days to dive in and help them get it straight.
I run RedHat. I started on Slackware, moved to RedHat (thanks Jon!) and have spent quality time with SuSE (ia32 and PPC), Mandrake and Debian. I've poked at Corel and Storm. I took a year long excursion into Mandrake and found it very difficult to routinely find some of the more obscure packages that were built with Mandrake in mind. I understand what's going to happen when dealing with RedHat. The user base is broad enough that if something's going to cause trouble I hear about it in a hurry. I can nearly count on two mildly buggy releases a year with relatively up-to-date stuff and I can ride herd on the bugs that get in my face. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
