[CLUE-Admin] KISS Session: why debian is the BEST distro! :-)

[Dave Price]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:01:42AM -0600, Lynn Danielson wrote:
> David Anselmi wrote:
> > 
> > My impression is that rpm systems are harder, but I don't know from 
> > experience.  And I don't want to have to learn whatever the rpm distros 
> > call their install/upgrade tools.  I guess I've spent a few minutes 
> > learning apt though, so I may be biased.  I'd like to hear other points 
> > of view though.
> 
>  From what I've seen of apt, I agree that it makes package updating
> packages pretty easy, once it's been properly setup and configured.
> But I'm more familiar with RPMs then Deb packages and I think that
> this will be true for most people in the forseeable future.
> 
> I won't argue against using Debian.  But I will suggest that we
> consider using KRUD.  I think tummy.com would donate a subscription
> to us if we asked them.  But I'm not sure how we would handle the
> updates.  I don't think that tummy offers KRUD via ftp anymore.
> So, it might require someone on site to install them.  If Techangle
> has no objections, I'd volunteer to show up and handle this.

nuf said

aloha,
dave (debian or death)