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Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Most 'mature' distribution? Is anyone offering 24/7 support for Debian such as the support offered by SuSE/RH? That's often the only way I can sell a software platform to management is decent software support. |---------+--------------------------------> | | John Summerfield | | | <summer@computerdatas| | | afe.com.au> | | | Sent by: Linux on 390| | | Port | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | EDU> | | | | | | | | | 01/04/2003 04:49 PM | | | Please respond to | | | Linux on 390 Port | | | | |---------+--------------------------------> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------| | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: | | Subject: Re: Most 'mature' distribution? | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------| On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marco Shaw wrote: > > Sure wish IBM would support Debian. It is SO VERY much nicer to use. > > Is that a general statement about Debian, or you find Debian/390 to be > very good compared to other Linux/390 distributions? My experience is all IA32. I've been using Red Hat Linux since 3.0.3. Recent releases are easy to install and adapt easily to changed configurations such as a change of NIC, mouse, new drives and such. Also, much configuration is assisted by GUIs. With the advent of RH 8.0, RH and I have some differences and I've been looking at Debian. Debian's installer "needs work," I've not discovered much in the way of tools to help users configure stuff. One RHL one installs stuff and then configures it, but it's up to you to figure what needs to be configured. Mostly, stuff is in a working state. on Debian, much configuration is interactive; you leave off installing a bunch of software to configure less, and that's a pain, it makes automatic installations akin to Red Hat's kickstart process difficult. To be sure, cloning is easy enough. However, one you have the system setup and running, I think Debian wins. *I* want to get my updates from a local mirror, and Red Hat's tools for package-maintenance don't so easily support that. For that reason I've not used Red Hat's up2date facility. On Debian, apt-get automatically gets the latest versions of packages. Installing Apache? It gets the updated version for your release plus all the requirements. I've not tried updating from one release to another, but as I understand it, it's supposed to work on the running system, without rebooting (except to activate your new kernel). I think I would reboot, once the upgrade's done, to ensure everything is restart and does still work. I also like the fact it makes no effort to tie me to a vendor. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
