Re: Why is Red Hat Better?

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 10:42 AM 9/22/99 -0500, Alan Mead wrote:

I had another 2 thoughts for those interested...
 
>But aside from the install and tech support, different flavors of Linux
>probably differ most in their emphasis.  But this is near meaningless in
>most cases because Linux software is mostly free and mostly compatible so
>you can usually download and customize your distribution.

I meant "you can usually download and customize your INSTALLATION", of
course.  And that said, you're going to have a much easier time if you use
a distro with package management.

But the thing I cannot believe I missed is a chance to plug LPI.  They are
doing certification exams and Faber Fedor and others when through a lot of
trouble to enumerate the ways in which "popular" distros (RH, Caldera, PHT,
SuSE, Debian) differ.  There is a link to this "Distributions Difference"
at their main page:

http://www.lpi.org

-Alan
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