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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:56:14 -0800 (PST) From: Wayne Earl <wayne@qconcepts.net> To: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@best.com> Subject: Re: [svlug] Kickstart woes I've used Red Hat and Debian both quite extensively. Both have their merits, but IMO, I cannot honestly say that one is better than the other. I really like being able to apt-get live updates, but this has bitten me a few times. The work I do tends to be in a very restrictive, secure production environment, and I've seen a few instances of dist-upgrade installing packages I do not want on those machines (installing portmapper automatically as part of a network tools upgrade comes to mind). While live upgrades tend to make my job easier, they are only marginally so, as I beleve it is never a good policy to automate these upgrades (I want to know what my servers are running), so this benifit is somewhat lost (to me, at least). The distro X vs. distro Y wars bore me. Each has it's own benifits, and own unique items of "suckness", depending on what you are doing with the machine. I say, use whatever distro works best for you. ===