Re: General linux question.
João Pinheiro wrote: There are quite a few differences between them. The most notable one would be the packaging system, .deb vs. .rpm, where Debian really kick the hell out of Red Hat. Some of the core packages have some substantial differences as well, such as the network management scripts (ifupdown in Debian). -- ksig --random|
Re: General linux question.
On Monday 17 October 2005 04.20, stephen horvath wrote: I do have a question that I have not received an answer. What is the real difference in what is referred to as Red Hat based or Debian based? As you've certainly noticed by now, the actual application programs (KDE, Gnome, The Gimp, OpenOffice.org etc.) are the same on both RedHat and Debian-based systems (and, for that matter, on Mandriva and Novell/SuSE, too - those are not really RedHat based anymore today.) The principal difference is in how software packages are distributed. On Windows, you had '.cab' files or self-extracting '.exe' files with (most often) an InstallShield based installer program (or similar.) On Debian based systems, you have '.deb' files, on RedHat/SuSE/Mandriva you have '.rpm' files. Between Red Hat, SuSE and Mandriva, while the package format is te same, the package names and the dependencies between the packages differ (ok, this is now becoming quite technical - as a user, you can just ignore that.) Another difference between the Linux distributions is the installer (I mean the system installer - what you see when you first boot from the distribution CD) - even within the 'Debian family' (Debian, Knoppix, Xandros, MEPIS, Ubuntu, ...) there are differencies. Also, the way to change system settings (set up Internet access, install additional programs, ...) once you have installed your system is different. I hope this helps to satisfy your curiosity. greetings Adrian -- Of course I know how to copy disks. Where's the xerox machine? pgpjCr9jaF7sa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: General linux question.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:18:34 +0200 Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 04.20, stephen horvath wrote: I do have a question that I have not received an answer. What is the real difference in what is referred to as Red Hat based or Debian based? the actual application programs [..] are the same The principal difference is in how software packages are distributed. Another difference [..] is the installer Also, the way to change system settings [..] is different. An important difference not covered above is that Debian is driven by a community effort - Redhat is driven by a corporation with stake holders to worry about, with a geek community being only an add-on. In theory the packaging systems used in Debian (dpkg) and Redhat (rpm) is quite similarly capable, but in reality the quality of packages and their interdependencies differ alot between distributions. Debian is by design a very messy place were each of a thousand developers are granted very wide trust. The way Debian solve structural problems (like oops, these two libraries conflict with each other - we need to choose only one of them to use across lots of packages) are fundamentally different from a corporation that can force decisions onto the paid developers. This is partly what makes development of the Debian distribution so famously slow, but also what (IMHO) makes the final result so much higher quality: The actual geeks compete their pet approaches or find ways to live happily side by side - instead of a management decision possibly killing novel ideas too soon (or old stable solution too early). - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDU/9On7DbMsAkQLgRAsV0AJkBNBoYBENOi1HHTSnpk00JkbbnmQCfWHmP IVDE5urBzJYTK59y0T85MCw= =2b3B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
General linux question.
Help, I have used the Linux programs for quite a few weeks and have decided to use it for all of my personal computing needs. I have used two distrubutions and have liked them both, one is Red Hat/Fedors and the other is Xandros. I do have a question that I have not received an answer. What is the real difference in what is referred to as Red Hat based or Debian based? I know their must be quite a difference between the two, but what is it? Can anyone help? Regards, Steve Horvath -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
