Randy,
> Debian has a great distribution of solid software packages -- presently, far
> more packages (~1800) than *any* other Linux distribution. If you find it's not
does this include SuSE with its 5 CD distribution (1 live filesystem, 1
sources, remainder packages) ?
> Debian's package manager, dselect, is simply superior to any other system.
including yast ?
I must admit that I'll stick to dpkg i.o. dselect, probably because I'm
not too acquinted with the interface.
> text-based, which means you can do remote package management. RedHat, for
> example, can't do this since it's GUI-based.
you can always use rpm or the character-based interface, glint ?
> software packages installed on my system to the versions on the ftp sites, and
> have dselect download any software packages which are newer/have been upgraded
> and install them after the download. This feature is so slick I wonder why
> others haven't copied it.
very interesting indeed. If... you have ISP-bandwidth to spare, or when
you don't have to pay per time-unit.
> IMHO, there's only four real choices of Linux distributions: Debian, RedHat,
> Slackware, and Suse. Of these, well, you can probably guess which one won hands
> down in my comparisons of them. ;-)
I don't use Slackware anymore since quite some years, so I can't judge
that one, rh on my alpha's (still waiting for the Debian CD's to arrive)
but prefer SuSe for trainings etc. Above that, being chauvinistic about
this EU distribution ;-)
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