[plug] did anyone manage to record the channel 10 linux article?

[Rob Hall]

> However, for my money, it also offers something which Redhat didn't: the
> option *not* to and to specify at a very early stage exactly which
> packages you want, without having to put up with someone else's choices.

RH5.0 to 5.2 offered that. Don't know about earlier versions but.  In fact,
I chose that meathod a few days ago for a minimal install.

Regards,


Rob Hall


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> Of Peter Caffin
> Sent: 20 January 1999 19:39
> To: plug at linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] did anyone manage to record the channel 10 linux
> article?
>
>
> Peter Caffin wrote:
> >ObRedhatVsDebian: Debian by miles! :).
>
> Okay, here we go: it's an old fashioned advocacy thread ;).
>
> I'd have to agree with Gary: Debian offers exactly the same sort of
> ultra-simple choice menu at the start: you can choose what sort of
> profile system you want, whether it be a multimedia system, a
> programming box, a network administration machine, whatever.
>
> However, for my money, it also offers something which Redhat didn't: the
> option *not* to and to specify at a very early stage exactly which
> packages you want, without having to put up with someone else's choices.
>
> It was the ability to choose which won me over Redhat; it was the
> reliability and easiness of installation, updating and removal of
> packages which won me over from Slackware (that and the promise of more
> "standard" file and directory locations).
>
> Anyhow, that's my two cents worth.
>
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