Re: tlug: Red Hat vs Debian

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 rodrigue-joe@example.com wrote:

> Hi guys, is there any advantage these days to going with Red Hat Linux with
> respect to Japanese support?  I was just about to throw in my hat with Debian.

I actually think that Debian-JP is better than the JRPM or PJE approach.
The package dependencies for Debian-JP are nicely integrated with
Debian.  There was a comparison chart in UNIX User, (or was that
Linux Japan?), that compared the JE and Debian-JP packages.
Debian-JP compared favorably, but they were about the same.  
I've got to set up a hack system
to compare them more fully, but IMO, dselect and dpgk are
nicer than the ezinst of PJE/JE.  

What problems are you having with Debian?  

The only thing I have in favor of Red Hat is that RH5.0 came
out before Debian2.0 and at the moment has better glibc6
support in pre-compiled packages.   


Regards,
Craig



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