Re: tlug: Red Hat vs Debian

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 rodrigue-joe@example.com wrote:

> > What problems are you having with Debian?
> 
> I haven't actually bought the machine yet, so I'm open to suggestions (hint
> hint).  I will order it soon (ie probably this afternoon).  Debian looked like
> a more comfortable environment socially, with a more enthusiastic user base.
> But most of that user base is not interested in Japanese.

Hmm, I thought that Debian had a more active user base interested
in Japanese.  IMO, the Debian-JP project is more organized than the
JRPM or PJE projects.  Though, the PJE is making progress fast
and may be more advanced than the Debian-JP project as I write this.

In summary, Red Hat and Debian don't focus on Japanese support.
However, they are used as a base to add Japanese support.  The
Japanese support projects are seperate from the Red Hat or Debian
projects, but dependent on them.

The three main projects to add Japanese support to Linux are 
Debian-JP, Project Japanese Extensions, and Project Japanese RPM.

There is the alternative of compiling your own.  In this case,
I think that Red Hat and Debian are about equal in terms of
Japanese support. 

You might want to first identify what you want to do with your
Linux system, what specific Japanese tasks you want to do and
then take a look at the packages in PJE and Debian-JP to see if
they support your needs.  Then, look at Red Hat and Debian
seperately to see if they meet your general needs.

I'm running both and they seem pretty similar. 

I do have a couple of questions,  in Debian, I can see the information
of the package with

   dpkg -I packagename.deb

can I get this with RPM?

Also, I want to get a file listing before I unpack the rpm file,
something similar to   tar ztvf filename.tgz

Is there an rpm command for this?


Regards,
Craig


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