Bob Cober wrote:
> 
> I have been happily using RedHat, but now I am curious...
> 
> Why is Debian better?
> 
> What are the main differences?

It's made by vegetarian elves, so it's "magically delicious"?

Folklore holds that it has a wonderful update tool (apt-get), very
conservative maintainers (older, well-tested code) and it has the moral
highground (BFD, IMHO*).  

I'm fond of Immunix 6.2 ( http://www.immunix.com ), which is Redhat 6.2
with the StackGuard compiler patch and RPMs built w/ StackGuard.

For a desktop box I think Redhat 7.1 looks nice, but my favorite toys
don't work with the 2.4 kernel yet.

Steve

*moral highground is "nice", but I don't consider any Linux distribution
immoral so that's no biggie for me.

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Todd Hought <thought@scudder-entprises.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Which Linux Distro?
> 
> > I second that, debian is definitely the best distro out there, (sorry for
> > adding to the holy war).
> >
> > But I will admit, for learning, get redhat, has the best support out
> there. I
> > paid the 30 bucks for it, and used the 90 days of free support many times.
> I
> > also hear lots of good things about mandrake 8, which is also redhat
> based,
> > so I might have to try that. But for just getting started, get redhat,
> since
> > there are more avenues of support for beginners.
> >
> > But debian is by far the best. :-)
> > -Todd