Re: [K12OSN] Re: [K12OSN]
Steve Langasek (vorlon@dodds.net)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:11:01 -0600
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Jay Kline wrote:
> A good question to ask is why try to adapt to debian? I dont want to start a
> flame war about which distro is better (I run both Debian and Redhat) but if
> the project is working well on one system, what benifits would come from
> porting to another? The big benifit I see in debian over other systems in a
> school lab envrionment is the ability to easily update packages with the
> apt-* tools, however there is a working port of these tools availible for
> Redhat now too.
Having a fair amount of experience with both RedHat and Debian, one of the
advantages I see is that there's a much larger array of software that's
been tested and integrated with Debian. If you need something that's not
included with the RedHat OS itself, my experience is that it's still
something of a mixed bag when you're downloading third-party RPMs; perhaps
now moreso than ever, because of the proliferation of RPM-based distros.
With Debian, it's somewhat astounding just how much software ships with
the OS. :) Having a port of apt to RedHat doesn't give you the same tight
integration with the system that you get from Debian.
The other advantage, I guess, is that if you use Debian as a base, you can
reuse all of those s390's in the closet as thin clients. Or something.[1]
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
[1] Seriously, with more supported hardware architectures than any other
Linux vendor, a Debian-based ltsp could probably turn just about any
legacy system into a thin-client. I don't recommend buying an IBM zSeries
for this purpose, however. ;)
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