[NBLUG/talk] recommendations for distro

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Thu Nov 20 21:40:03 PST 2003


EEWWWwwww, I smell a foul odor....  Distro war flame bait.....

On Thursday 20 November 2003 19:33, ME wrote:
> If you have some *NIX sysadmin experience, you may be happier with a
> distro like Debian. It locates config files for system configuration in
> consistent locations with other *NIX systems and generally expects you to
> modify your service configurations via text-editors by default. (Much like
> other *NIX-like systems.)
>
> RedHat also uses locations for many configuration files that are consisten
> with *NIX distros, but also tends to add extra locations with other
> configurations. Also, RedHat tends to encourage users to use GUI-tools to
> configure services and parts of the OS.
>
> However, the Debian Installed (default) tends to be more difficult to use
> than the RedHat installer.
>
> RedHat seems to make it easy for you to start using Linux for the first
> time, but Debian seems to be better over the long term. The learning curve
> for Debian is Steep and requires more up-front cost, while RedHat seems to
> permit a more shallow curve to get started, but an on-going upgrade cost
> for major revisions. With Debian, it is often possible to upgrade from
> previous major releases to newer ones and have a working system in the
> end, while with RedHat major version upgrades (4.x to 5.x, 5.x to 6.x,
> etc)have historically been problematic. Most RedHat veterans have
> historically suggested  people using RedHat who wish to upgrade to a newer
> major release, just backup their own user files and just restore the new
> version from the beginning. (Things may have changed with RH 8 and 9)
>
> Then again, most of our users actually use RedHat, so you may have more
> people to answer questions with RedHat than you would with Debian.

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