[CLUE-Talk] RH or Deb ?

[Mike Miller]

Actually, I've found Lycoris to be more 'Windows-ish' than Redhat...and
I've used Mandrake in the past.

Lycoris worked and worked very well for the 'Grandma' like tasks but
fell down when it came time to compile code to add functionality (yes,
I'm aware that I get what I pay for when downloading the iso's myself.
;) ) It had NO problems seeing our NAS box, our network, and all of the
hardware on the Dell workstation it was installed on.

I'm running Knoppix (Debian) at the office and RedHat 8 at home. 

Debian's got neat apt-get stuff built in, but the same functionality can
be configured and installed on Redhat. (I can dig up the link if you're
interested) and following the installation instructions for copying the
Live CD to a local drive made for a VERY quick install.

My problem with Redhat was that they REALLY wanted to get additional
money out of you for services. $40 gets you the personal version on CD,
which is worth it as it's damn near impossible to download the .iso's
from the 'net. But they want an additional $80 a year for access to
their update services. Coming from Microsoft where the patches may be
frequent, but at least they're free, was a big eye-opener.

Their default kernel didn't have support built in to see an NTFS drive,
and when I used their 'free 1 month tech support', I found out that my
issue didn't fall under the support umbrella, that the one month free
support was only for installation issues.

IMHO, not being able to access the data on another partition due to
their kernel assumptions would qualify...eh. I avoided the problem by
moving the drive temporarily to another box.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-talk-admin at clue.denver.co.us 
> [mailto:clue-talk-admin at clue.denver.co.us] On Behalf Of 
> Robert L. Harris
> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:34 AM
> To: clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] RH or Deb ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   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%253
D1,00.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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