[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Young's Statement to Slashdot

[Steve Baker]

Randall Gibson wrote:
> 
> Hehe, I went through 2 days of AGONY to get Debian installed on my Laptop
> here, even though SuSE did it all in no time flat. Just because SuSE is
> based on Red-Hat.

I don't think SuSE is based from RedHat - you are probably thinking of
Mandrake.

> If they could get rpm's to be as easy to work with as
> deb's I wouldnt bother, but you only install once, you have to be able to
> maintain it for a LONG time.

SuSE seem to manage that - although they ARE based around RPM's.

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