I figure I shouldn't notice a huge difference as a user, but will admin stuff take getting used to? The other Linux machines in the house are running Red Hat or Mandrake (so far, anyhow).
two reasons politically redhat is a company that has a bottem line (which is why they are not going to be making any more releases). This influnces a lot of things in large part for the worse (they make releases every 6 month because they need to make money even if this does not make sence) technically I find debian way easier to maintain it has less (or that I use) gui control panel stuff. But on the other hand updates are free and VERY easy to do apt-get update;apt-get upgrade every day will keep your system up to date. Even a new release comes out replace upgrade with dist-upgrade and you are pretty much done. Also the debian release process fells a lot more q&a focused. Debian does full releases not very often they are at 3.0r2 and have been around for atleast 10 years. This mean packages are very well tested before they are released. The down side of this (if you run stable) is the newest version of stuff can be slow to be included. From an admin side if you do stuff from the command line it should be pretty much the same. Thanks, Angie
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I figure I shouldn't notice a huge difference as a user, but will admin stuff take getting used to? The other Linux machines in the house are running Red Hat or Mandrake (so far, anyhow).
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politically redhat is a company that has a bottem line (which is why they are not going to be making any more releases). This influnces a lot of things in large part for the worse (they make releases every 6 month because they need to make money even if this does not make sence)
technically I find debian way easier to maintain it has less (or that I use) gui control panel stuff. But on the other hand updates are free and VERY easy to do apt-get update;apt-get upgrade every day will keep your system up to date. Even a new release comes out
replace upgrade with dist-upgrade and you are pretty much done. Also the debian release process fells a lot more q&a focused. Debian does full releases not very often they are at 3.0r2 and have been around for atleast 10 years. This mean packages are very well tested before they are released. The down side of this (if you run stable) is the newest version of stuff can be slow to be included.
From an admin side if you do stuff from the command line it should be pretty much the same.
Thanks,
Angie