Debian et al: was re: Mandriva

[Collins Richey]

On 5/19/05, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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> Net Llama! wrote:
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> > Fedora supports all the popular filesystems, including XFS & JFS.
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> - From Install?  And what of RHEL?
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RHEL does not support XFS (and others) in any way. You have to
generate your own kernel, and thus not from install time.

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> >> examples. CentOS is making available a plus repository (and of
> >> course there's Dag), but the RedRat (CentOS) base is a bit slim
> >> for my tastes.
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> What does Dag mean?  I know it's another extras repository, but is it
> short for Dag-Nasty?  Or what?  If so, it would appear to be like
> Madrake's "Cooker".  Is that about accurate?
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Dag Wieers is a Belgian gentleman who maintains a good repository of
extras for the RedRat-like distros (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora).

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> > Good or bad, Redhat provides excellent support to its large
> > customers. 

Good or bad is not the question. It the other large customers are
anything like my employer, RedRat doesn't do diddly past selling you a
license. This is not to knock their distro, although I'm not too
pleased about some of their choices. Dropping LVM in favor of a not
quite cooked LVM2. Few filesystem choices.  Etc.
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> >>
> >> The one thing no one can match (gentoo is trying) is the massive
> >> number of packages available with Debian.
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> >
> > That's very deceptive, since the Debian package maintanence culture
> > is so drastically different than any other distro. All Debian
> > packages are always under the big Debian umbrella, where as there
> > are RH/FC RPMs floating around everywhere.

Yes, and relatively few in comparison to Debian.

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 Collins
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