Re: [LUG] Wanting to really put an effort to learn Linux properl

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-Jan-2002 at 11:25:44 kevin bailey wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On 08-Jan-2002 at 10:57:53 Steve Marvell wrote:
> > > I'll stand up and say "Redhat for newbies, Debian for pros".
> >                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > In what way for pros rather than redhat, mandrake, etc?
> debian for pros because debian is better for long term use - after a 
> year or so the RPM system gets its dependencies mixed up to the extent 
> that installing/upgrading software is extremely difficult.
Hmm, well I can't deny that! I've given up on some software because it
requires something else which requires something else which requires...:-)


John.

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