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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning




On Nov 3, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:


To answer your question:

Debian: 8 CDs of useless or outdated software, 2.2 kernel install,
poorly designed install tool

ObPickNits:


Debian only needs one CD, if you have a network connection. In fact, there's a 'netinst' Debian install CD that can be burned to a business card CDROM.

Debian maintains security fixes for all stable packages, so none are really outdated. Interested people maintain 'backports' of important packages if a major package releases between Debian releases. Finally, if you *must* have the "version released yesterday," you can install Debian stable and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to Debian testing or Debian unstable, which usually work just fine.

Debian 3.0 CD3 uses a 2.4.18 boot kernel, so you can install under 2.4. Regardless of which kernel you install, Debian stable maintains kernel packages for 2.4.16 & 18, and the 'make-kpkg' tool makes it trivial to compile and install your own kernel package from a later revision kernel source.

Finally, if "poorly designed" means you actually have to read the install prompts, then yes, I think you're probably right. However, the neophyte I gave an install CD last week didn't have a problem, so that issue is overblown.

-- Cerebus

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