I've been using RH for years, and recently I'm starting to switch over to Debian. If you are basically looking for a Desk Top, I would be inclined to stick to RH.. it's much easier and less stress. If you are looking at a server, use Debian. It's much safer and far more robust. Apt-get leaves rpm for dead, and the security is easily better.
File system is not so different to be a problem, from what I've seen, but Debian is much stricter in the way it's laid out and directories are used, so in the end it's more predictable. Debian assumes you know what you are doing, Redhat assumes you DON'T know what you are doing. Just personal observations.. from the point of view of a non-expert. David. On Thu, 2 May 2002, Alex Samad wrote: > With out starting a distro war. > > I am currently running redhat 7.2 and SuSe 7.3 Sparc. > > I have just started attending the slug meetings and I have been hearing a > lot Debian. > > Can people comment on the differences between the two. Both the lay out of > the file system and the its package manager. Are there things that I can > get for Debian that I can't for Redhat or vis versa. Please note I usually > try to download source packages and compile and install and use the rpm for > convenience > > Can take this off line and mail directly to me. > > Thanxs > Alex > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
