On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 12:41, Matthew Larson wrote: > I am curious about the many different flavors of linux. Specifically, How > do Gentoo and Debian differ from RedHat? How do Gentoo and Debian Differ > from each other?
Redhat = stable professional, for those that don't have time to mess with everything but want to mess with a lot of things, but still have it work. Direct competitors = SuSE and Mandrake, each with similar goals. Debian = flexible, powerful, slightly unfriendly distro. Has huge user base, depends on network access to keep it maintained. Huge number of packages installable from all over the work using apt (hence the network dependence). Debian runs on *all* platforms the kernel runs on. In my opinion, there's no reason to run it on x86 unless you really want to (and want to be consistant with all your other platforms -- I run it on ultrasparc). Debian is Debian, so you don't have to worry about distro incompatibilites (unlike redhat-based or rpm-based distros). Gentoo = For the masochist. Polished system, must compile everything from source (that's the point). You end up with a lean, mean and fast machine with only the software on it that you want. (A week or two later.) I personally think that Gentoo has more polished internals (like init scripts and so forth) than debian. These are all just my opinions, though. See www.distrowatch.com and you can see more information than you wanted to know. Michael > > Any comments? > > Matthew Larson > > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
