[1370] in SIPB_Linux_Development
RedHat vs. Debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Aug 12 16:51:56 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 16:50:58 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Cc: sit@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: mhpower@MIT.EDU's message of Fri, 09 Aug 1996 01:03:09 EDT,
<9608090503.AA12030@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU>
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make tonight's meeting; I did want to
make an observation of the RedHat vs. Debian question. I think we
should go with supporting RedHat.
Both RedHat and Debian are technically quite good. Unfortunately for
Debian, very few people are actually using RedHat; there are many, many
more people using RedHat. (It's a bit quite like the situation of
NetBSD vs. Linux, actually. Both are technically good, and the
technical quality is on the whole more or less the same --- however,
many more people are using Linux.)
The other consideration is that Debian has committed to make dpkg
support .rpm files; so, if we put out RPM packages, they should work for
both Debian and RedHat systems.
- Ted
