Hi, Joe,
That's interesting that you mention that upgrading from Red Hat 5.x to
6.x was hell. I'm upgrading from Mandrake 5.3 to Mandrake 6.1, and it's
the basement of hell. So many things got broken, and I'm completely
unable to compile a 2.2 kernel with nfs support. I stuck with Mandrake
because of their Pentium optimization, but I've decided it's not worth
three days, and counting, of trying to get things working. I was
wondering, is it possible to "upgrade" from Mandrake 6.1 to Red Hat
6.1? Thanks,
Hidong
Joe Brenner wrote:
>
> Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm a linux newbie and purchased Corel Linux and RH 6.1
> > What is the difference between the debian based over RH?
>
> I am and remain a redhat user, but one of the reasons I
> would look at the Debian distribution is because of the
> package management system. They've essentially solved the
> problem of automatic security upgrades over the net (which
> strikes me as *the* critical security technology... most
> crackers are using known exploits that still exist only
> because the sysadmin hasn't gotten to installing the fix).
>
> There are a number of things that annoy me about using RPMs
> (e.g. nearly *every* time you try and install something,
> there's some problem with dependencies that you have to
> resolve semi-manually... This is another thing that the
> debian folks claim to have solved already).
>
> My expectation is that the RPM folks will add these features
> eventually (I wouldn't be suprised if they're very close
> already), but if I needed them immediately, I'd switch to
> Debian.
>
> If you're worried about career options... well, Redhat
> certainly seems to have the publicity and the momentum to be
> a safe choice for the near future. Depending on what you're
> interested in doing, you could argue that learning FreeBSD
> is a better choice (a lot of old-time Unix heads prefer it
> for servers, for example).
>
> It *is* true that Debian has been more conservative about
> changing C-libraries, but on the other hand upgrading from
> RedHat 5.x to 6.x was hell in my opinion. When Debian gets
> around to doing the switch maybe it'll go eaisier for
> them. RedHat's tendency to ship beta (or sub-beta) quality
> stuff isn't really a selling point in my book.
>
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