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The new Fedora Project

Posted Sep 24, 2003 22:14 UTC (Wed) by Strike (guest, #861)
In reply to: The new Fedora Project by brouhaha
Parent article: The new Fedora Project

The Debian people have done some great things, and I approve of their philosophy, but their distribution is all but impossible for anyone who is not a Linux expert to install or maintain.

Install? Yes. Maintain? No. Debian is super-easy to maintain. Easier than anything else I've ever used (including all the RedHat's since back in the 6.x days), that's for certain. Though getting it there is indeed a bit of a chore. However, the issue has been recognized and is being worked on. Debian is a bit behind the game in terms of user-friendliness, but that's okay as they don't have a profit margin to fill and they are focusing on getting the core to be a lot better instead (which is why it's so easy to maintain). I do have to hand it to the people who have coded up RedHat's installer though ... top notch stuff.

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The new Fedora Project

Posted Sep 25, 2003 19:01 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Install? Yes. Maintain? No. Debian is super-easy to maintain.

I agree, 99 percent.

The dissenting 1 percent comes into play when I run into a broken package and have to start messing around with post-install scripts in /var/lib/dpkg/info to try and figure out what's broken.

It could be argued that most users should be using the stable release, but stable is so out of date that most desktop users would rather use Red Hat or SuSE and go through RPM hell.

My solution is to use unstable for my workstation, but I keep a stable partition around just in case unstable blows up.