Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

[Tony Mantler <eek@escape.ca>]

At 1:28 PM -0600 3/1/2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:
>
[...]
>> <nitpick>Not Debian...</nitpick>
>
>Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now?  I'd gotten the
>impression that it was still a work-in-progress.

A little while back I went about the proscess of converting my friend's
7600 and PBG3 to Linux. He chose LinuxPPC for the 7600, and I went for
Debian on his PBG3, since I had worked with it a lot in my 68k and
subsequent x86 dealings.

This was before Debian's installer had PowerMac support (which may still be
the case, I haven't checked), so installing the system manually was a bit
entertaining to say the least.

However, after all that was dealt with and the system was installed, it
proved to be (imho) a much better system than his LinuxPPC desktop system.
I never had to search for rpms, every package came with very sane, useable
default configuration files, and pretty much every package I've installed
on that box has worked first try, without any fussing or messing about.

No offense to the LinuxPPC guys here, :) but the difference has been enough
to convince him to get me to install Debian to replace LinuxPPC on his 7600
too.


Cheers - Tony :)


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Tony Mantler         Renaissance Nerd Extraordinaire         eek@escape.ca
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada                       http://www.escape.ca/~eek


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