[TriLUG] self-support alternatives to Novell/SUSE & RHEL

[Magnus]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 12:36  PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> Okay, I can accept that - particularly the install ease. Although
> pesonally I'd prefer improving Debian's install over going the all-new
> route, but that's just me.

Well it remains to be seen what the recent port of Anaconda to Debian 
will do.  I can only see that as a positive change.

What I'm talking about doing isn't all new, though;  it's taking an 
existing distro, sanitizing it of trademarks, and mildly changing it to 
meet with the project's goals.

> It just seemed to me that Debian's two big
> advantages (the guaranteed "all-free"ness

Check out the cAos social contract.

> and the robustness of apt-get)

Like I said, on the RPM side we have yum which works just as well (and 
often with less typing).

Like the KDE vs Gnome or Emacs vs Vi debate, it more or less boils down 
to a matter of personal preference.  In my own case, it is that plus 
not wanting to re-engineer my automation around a completely different 
flavored distro.

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink 
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain
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