I have been a RedHat afficionado for about the last two years, having cut my teeth on Slackware (a familiar story around here). I have tried using apt-get to upgrade systems and have been frustrated with it. I think the main problems arise when you have installed rpms that are not standard with the distro and then you try to upgrade. For this reason, I have considered trying Debian, but I am scared off (maybe that's too strong) by the learning curve. Perhaps I shouldn't be since I started w/ Slack. Eric On Friday 12 September 2003 09:55, Clay Fandre wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:57:13PM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > > > Debian does take a while to setup. But you only need to do it once. > > > You can keep the same install for years and always have an up to date > > > system. Debian is by far the easiest Linux distro to maintain. I don't > > > know of any other OS that is easier. > > > > Based on what? apt has been ported to RPM based systems, which makes > > redhat just as easy to keep up-to-date, and upgrading between releases is > > the same (apt-get dist-upgrade) > > I beg to differ. Yes, apt-get has been ported to RH, but it is more of > a hack on top of RPM than a true apt-based system. I have had major > problems trying to upgrade full systems on RH using apt-get, but have > yet to experience problems with Debian. It seems that Debian just does > a better job with dependencies time and time again. > > I'd like to hear of other's experiences with apt-get on RH vs Debian. > Is it just me? Maybe I'm just biased towards Debian. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list