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On 08-Jan-2002 at 18:26:41 Alex Charrett wrote:
I'll stand up and say "Redhat for newbies, Debian for pros".In what way for pros rather than redhat, mandrake, etc?This is something I wonder about too, I would say that you need a greater understanding of Linux to be able to use debian than say Red Hat or Mandrake, but I'd like to think I'm fairly well versed by now and still
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use Red Hat the majority of the time, have 1 debian installation and then theres Solaris etc :)
Okay, so wouldn't you use redhat *because* you know linux? Why bother with fiddling around with things (which it sounds like is required with debian) when you don't need to, but you still know how to change things if problems occur? In that respect I'd rather spend an hour (say) installing redhat which does most of the work for me, rather than (say) two hours installing debian where (it seems) I would have to configure more things myself, but still end up with the machine configured and working the same as the redhat one :-) John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.