slackware vs redhat

[Sunfire]

well... like i said in the last message about it...i cant really afford it
and i am not trying to say bad about any distrib..to be exact i havent even
read about slackware...all i know about it is its linux derived and has
existed forever to put it simple... its been around ever since i can
remember...
anyways heh all he said when he told me to switch was i didnt think he know
that much about unix and he said i dont just know enough to get around
(barely) oh...just to add since he said all of that other stuff he said "its
cooler lots of little system toys to play with"...at saying that he got his
account taken out (not taking a chance with a possible hacker) not to
mention he told me then that he was a hacker and i had to make sure all of
my system still existed...

hehe anyways...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Howell" <aaron at kitten.net.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: slackware vs redhat


> You are correct, your friend doesn't know very much about Unix/Linux.
> RedHat 8.0 has some of the latest software, (gcc 3.2, glibc 2.3, apache
2.0, kernel 2.4.18 etc).
> It now ships by default with speakup, so the old addage of slackware is
better than redhat because it has speakup built in no longer applies.
> as far as the statement about consuming more system resources, that's just
plain garbage.
> What system resources are consumed depend entirely upon what software you
choose to run.
> if you run lots of different software, then you will use more system
resources than if you run a minimalistic system, (that is true of both
RedHat and slackware).
> Both Redhat and slackware are regularly updated, and erata packages are
released for both if security problems etc are found in the current
distribution.
> That said, they are both excellent products, and the above is by no means
an attack on slackware.
> There is definitely a place for both distributions, but it would be fair
to say that if you are confident with redHat and happy with what it gives
you,
> then you will not benefit by changing your system over to Slackware.
> Regards
> Aaron
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:58:26AM -0400, Sunfire wrote:
> > hi...
> > i was wondering... i was told by someone that didnt claim to know that
much
> > about unix/linux that i "needed" to change my server over from redhat to
> > slackware... so instead of updating to redhat8.0 he wants me to update
to
> > slackware 8.1.  he said to do that because of the reasons i will
list..(not
> > all of them because it would be a very bad flame on redhat).
> > 1. redhat is out of date
> > 2. redhat takes too many resources and is slower by over 50%
> > 3. doesnt take as much disk space and is easier to install.
> > 4. redhat updates every few months or so......
> >
> > i think i will end now after that it gets into too many flames if it
hasn't
> > already...sorry if i posted stuff like that but i need to know somehow
to
> > weigh this out..because i cant afford to "try it" on both systems to
find
> > out for myself... it gets too expensive...
> >
> > tnx
> >
> >
> >
> >
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