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Please do your homeworkPlease do your homeworkPosted Nov 6, 2003 16:27 UTC (Thu) by ranger (guest, #6415)In reply to: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? by debacle Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian? - I cannot install it on my router/printserver (486) - no problem with Debian. If your 486 has a maths co-processor, you can install Mandrake on it. If it doesn't, you're wasting your time on a system like that. The time you spend installing anything on it is likely more than you would pay for a decent i586 box. - Many packages that are important to me are not available for Mandrake. Yes, there are 3rd party RPMs, but if I have problems, I cannot report them to Mandrake, because it's 3rd party. No problem with Debian, because everything's there. You make it sound like contrib is placed all over the internet like Debian backports are. This is not the case. There are very few packages available on the net that are not in contrib (and thus supported by the community). Name the packages you need, I am sure they will be in main or contrib. If it's in main or contrib, and there's a problem with it, file a bug. - I was not able to find Mandrake for the arm or for the alpha platform. Mandrake seems not to care about non-i586 platforms. No problem with Debian. Mandrake cooker is available for i586, sparc, alpha, ppc and amd64, in addition to the supported releases for ia64, ppc, amd64 and i586 that have been made in the past. The very good integration of all packages, the strict packaging policy, the freedom of choosing different hardware, the freedom of using a lot of packages, that are really part of the distribution, and tools like debconf all give good reasons to choose Debian. It's not only apt-get! Please do your homework. Mandrake packages are pretty decent, and a lot of work is being done on improving them. At present, most of the packages in the distritbution rebuild automatically (in other words all Buildrequires are correct and requirements between the buildrequires are correct) on all platforms that are running cooker. Packaging policies are similar to Debian (library naming etc), and urpmi now competes with apt-get. The only thing we don't have is Debconf, but usually configs have sane out-the-box configurations and are well documented. Plus, there is something in the works that will be better than Debconf if it works out as planned. Please, before you make statements like the ones you did, at least do some research. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/wiki is a good place to start.
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