Re: [tlug] What to do with RedHat

[Martin Baehr <mbaehr@example.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:40:14AM +0900, Raymond Regalado wrote:
> will companies be rolling out Fedora on production systems as they have 
> done with RedHat (not the Enterprise version)? 

i suspect that this will depend on the reputation that fedora gets.

> You switched to Debian, though; is it a better distro?

definetly better than redhat 7.x.
can't tell you much more because i have not looked at redhat since then.

things that i like about debian is that i do not get a new release twice
a year.  that ensures that out there today you will find only two
versions of debian in production use. the current stable version and the
testing one. (a few people still run the old stable or the current
unstable (but the latter are mostly debian developers))

3rd party packages will be built for one of these two versions
while with redhat when i was looking for a package that was not
included, i often found one that did not match the redhat version i
happened to have installed which either caused dependency trouble or
forced an upgrade or simplay failed in unexpected ways.

another issue is that i could not upgrade redhat in the backround.
i was forced to reboot, and actually wait for the upgrade to be done
before i could continue working. i also needed to attend the upgrade, so
i could not do it at night (to have it done in the morning)
things may have improved here though.

greetings, martin.
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