On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:08:41AM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> > Why did I switch to Debian? Redhat's packages don't handle
> > upgrades and dependencies as well as they should, and rpmfind [3]
> > doesn't do the right thing by default as often as it could.
>
> Not only Debian's packaging system is really cool, but Debian's
> philosophy is also important.
Yeah, Redhat is a public for-profit company just like Microsoft,
they're just at different points in the food chain. (and their
products don't suck quite as hard.)
:
> I think that the last important thing about Debian is that it kicks ass.
> For example, you have startup scripts which really work.
I have to say, after only a few days I am very impressed.
I was pretty happy with RPMs and rpmfind for a long time (you
can usually do "rpmfind foo" and then "rpm -U /tmp/foo" to
install something), but frequently there would be many versions
of a given package and you wouldn't know which was the best one.
(and rpmfind wouldn't find the right one by default, or the one
you happened to pick would have clashing dependencies.)
Now, almost anything I want to install is easily done with a
single command: "apt-get install packagename". Sample:
root@devo:/root# apt-get install bind
Setting up bind (8.2.2p5-11) ...
To be most effective, /etc/resolv.conf should list the IP address of your
local machine (127.0.0.1) as a nameserver. It currently does not.
Would you like this to be added? [Y]
Starting domain name service: named.
Very cool.
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