Re: [SLUG] Package Management

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 21:42:17 EDT


On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:23:08PM -0400, Mike Branda wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyway, that was _way_ more than you wanted to know. I only mention
> > these things because you've been around for a while, and if you're
> > looking at Debian, you should know the pluses and minuses. For a
> > completely new user, much of this won't affect them-- they won't be
> > tinkering and continually updating.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Paul,
>
> Thanks for the write up. I actually did want to know all that. I
> really actually want to know all I can about the different distros.
> Kind of the Progressive Auto Insurance approach (they "supposedly" tell
> you if the competitor has better rates). If I know that another linux
> distro has stronger points in certain areas, then I can recommend it to
> someone for those reasons. Or just the plain and simple fact of the
> matter that if I know how Debian's apt-get works, I can help someone
> else learn or debug.

Another reference is on the SLUG site, though it may be slightly dated:
http://www.suncoastlug.org/proscons.html

Paul
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