Re: [ossig] Enterprise Linux: UserLinux, Debian

[Kenneth Wong <kenneth.wong@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:29:10 +0800, Seah Hong Yee
<hongyee@polyscientific.com.my> wrote:
 
> I am not sure why people don't choose fedora out right but I suspect lack of
> good package management and updating ( no, I don't think up2date is that good
> when compare to apt). 

As I just mentioned to Uwe, use Yum on the fedora series. Or even
install apt-get on fedora. Works quite well if you point to the right
repositories and I believe (Colin will correct me if I'm wrong) that
you upgrade to new cores through Yum as well.

> Nobody really run "stable" debian. 

*Glances at the servers he's set up or forced other people to set up*.
Speak for yourself. For people who want 24/7 reliability and don't
need all the new whizbang functionality, stable is a very nice
distribution.

> Here's another tip, the easiest
> way to install debian is boot off knoppix and install debian from there.

One minor problem - it installs some knoppix specific packages, so
you're stuck relying on knoppix for upgrades of those packages. Either
that or you have to manually pull out all the knoppix packages and
replace them with debian packages. Was a real pain when I went through
that.

Install from the debian sarge disk. It's relatively new (so you won't
be stuck with kernel 2.2 and ext2fs) but not bleeding edge like
unstable.

Ken


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