[TriLUG] installfest server - something's got to give

[Mark Johnson]

On Wednesday, May 1, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> Avui, Dimecres 01 Maig 2002 14:06, no tenieu res mes que fer i me vareu enviar 
> aquest e-mail
> > I have a friend who recommends Debian over Redhat. I'm just beginning to
> > read up on this, but is there a site out there that compares different
> > installs?? My friend did say that Debian is a little harder to set up but
> > it looks like you guys have that covered.
> 
> Then, use Mandrake: a Red Hat Linux, oriented to Desktop use, and with many 
> Debian-like features

Huh? 

Mandrake & Debian are universes apart. 

rpms vs. debs, apt vs yup/apt-rpm (whatever it's called) -- giant
difference here. 

And the SGML/XML setups are completely different. This matters if you
wanna do, say, docbook. (OTOH, they'll soon merge under LSB-XML/SGML,
but that's another story.)

Note that I'm _not_ claiming one is better than the other. I'm only
pointing out that they're far more different than they are similar.

Cheers,
Mark
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