[lug] Debian is better?

[Timothy C. Klein]

* David Morris (lists at morris-clan.net) wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:

[snip]

> Furthermore, any package that *does* install completely
> works, requiring only a bit of configuration in the most
> complex packages.  This is not necessarily true of a RedHat
> package from my experience (at least as of 7.0)...a lot more
> configuration is generally required to get something to
> work smoothely.

I have found this to be far superior in Debian that RedHat, Slackware,
Suse, etc.  A Debian package, the great majority of the time, is ready
and up and running as soon as it installs.  apt-get install <package> is
all the configuration you need to do a bunch of the time.  The Debian
developers work hard to give a very sane default install.  This is true,
even, of a lot of the daemons.

Tim
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