What Distro to use

[Bill Warner]

1. Installation barfing constantly
2. RPM hell
3. kernel pains in the ass with initrds
4. segfaults from things that worked fine in Debian like mail of all things

I would have to say that the main thing is that when doing things
in Debian they just seemed to work.  While doing them on Redhat
we have to tweek and twiddle every little thing.  Also scaleability
is going to be a problem.  We have 42 sco servers that are being
replaced by Redhat.  we are expected to double that over the next 6
months and very likely have well over 200 by 2002.  With automation
of updates and secerity packs "RPM Hell" is going to take on a whole
new meaning.

I personaly am not that upset with the decission.  As you say atleast
we are running Linux.  There are others on our team that are very upset
so some of the vibe probably runs off into my posts.  Alot of what got
me upset was that we had 9 Debain systems running and had to switch them
all over to Redhat.

Bill W


> On Nov 3,  4:28am, Bill Warner wrote:
> 
> > Working for a company where we have a unix support staff of 10 people.  8
> > of witch are Debian users/admins and none of witch are Redhat fans or really
> > much for users.  Now because of this missconception that you can just call
> > Redhat and they will give you a magic answer I have to re-learn Redhat
> > and curse it at every bump that could have been avoided and was when we
> > first brought everything up on Debian.
> 
> Bill,
> 
> It sounds to me like you're just upset about having had something
> rammed down your throats by your management.
> 
> Could you give us a concrete example of something that was difficult
> in Red Hat, but easy with Debian?
> 
> I am quite frankly amazed that you feel as strongly as you do about
> which distribution you're using.  AFAICT, the only things that
> significantly distinguish the distributions are ease of installation
> (or lack thereof) and package management.  FWIW, the package
> management issue is why I switched to Red Hat (from Slackware) many
> years ago.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> P.S. You should look at the bright side; you're still using Linux,
> you have the source code to everything, and it's not that hard to
> fix the things that you don't like.
> 
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