[svlug] Kickstart woes

[Wayne Earl]

I've used Red Hat and Debian both quite extensively. Both have their
merits, but IMO, I cannot honestly say that one is better than the other.

I really like being able to apt-get live updates, but this has bitten me a
few times. The work I do tends to be in a very restrictive, secure
production environment, and I've seen a few instances of dist-upgrade
installing packages I do not want on those machines (installing portmapper
automatically as part of a network tools upgrade comes to mind).

While live upgrades tend to make my job easier, they are only marginally
so, as I beleve it is never a good policy to automate these upgrades (I
want to know what my servers are running), so this benifit is somewhat
lost (to me, at least).

The distro X vs. distro Y wars bore me. Each has it's own benifits, and
own unique items of "suckness", depending on what you are doing with the
machine. I say, use whatever distro works best for you.

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Karen Shaeffer wrote:
> I've used Red Hat exclusively during my experience with Linux. As I continue
> to learn and acquire knowledge, I have become somewhat bored and disappointed
> in Red Hat. I have made it an action item to install Debian in my lab soon. :)
> 
> I look forward to this with much interest.
> 
> c,
> 

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Wayne Earl
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