[CLUE-Talk] RH or Deb ?

[Robert L. Harris]

  Personally I've run both recently.  I find Redhat much easier to install
and comes pre-installed with more bells and whistles.  Then again this
is why I run Debian.  I prefer a Stable, Secure system that only takes a
little effort to make it very pretty.  Redhat is the "Windows of the
Linux world" as I call it.  No that's not a slam, it's just aimed for
windows type people mostly.  Yes, it can be stable and secure but takes
much more work to get it there.  I also really like how the Apt/Deb
system is setup, makes daily/weekly maintenance a breeze.  The online
community mailing list is full of really great people also, even if they
haven't banned me yet.



Thus spake Jeffery Cann (fabian at jefferycann.com):

> From: Jeffery Cann <fabian at jefferycann.com>
> To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] RH or Deb ?
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 06:22:38 -0700
> 
> On Monday 09 December 2002 05:48 am, Marcin wrote:
> > I've got a little question to US CLUE members:
> > which linux RedHat or Debian GNU/Linux is most popular in the USA and
> > why?
> 
> Statistics on the popularity of distributions are hard to come by and vary 
> widely by who asks and for what reason.
> 
> This is from the Linux counter, which is not only USA.  However 27% of the 
> machines registered are from the USA. 
> http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.html
> 	1. Red Hat  29%
> 	2. Mandrake 18%
> 	3. Debian  14%
> 	4. Suse 11%
> 
> "What's your favorite Linux distro?"  PCMag.com (USA), October 8, 2001
> http://www.pcmag.com/poll_archive/0,3044,p%253D1035%2526bn%253D1,00.asp
>      1. Mandrake: 43.78%
>      2. Redhat: 27.9%
>      3. Suse: 15.41%
>      4. Libranet: 1.42%
>      5. Other: 11.49%
> 
>   "Best distribution for beginners," Linux.com (USA), September 24, 2001
> http://www.linux.com/polls/index.phtml?pid=128
> 
>      1. Mandrake - 36.7%
>      2. Redhat - 33.5%
>      3. Suse -13.5%
>      4. Slackware - 5.6%
>      5. Debian - 4.6%
>      6. Caldera - 3.7%
> 
> 
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