Re: Easier?

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> 
> Well, Redhat would probably be your best bet.  For various reasons RPMs
> come out sooner than DEBs do, in general. 

For Gnome, they come out a few days sooner. In general, not really true.
There are also many more "official" .deb's in Debian than there are
"official" rpm's.

> Plus, Redhat has, at the very
> least, GLINT.  I'm not sure how Debian is about a GUI for their package
> manager.
> 

There is no Debian GUI for the package manager (yet); you have to use the
horrible dselect interface to select your packages. However, once you
select them, you keep them up to date with the miraculous Apt package
manager (well, you have to download it separately; it's not in 2.0):

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get dist-upgrade

Retrieves all new package versions and installs. So that's pretty handy. 
But in general Red Hat is a little easier. 

If you're a newbie, I'd say Gnome is living on the edge for now. But it
can be fun. Just be sure you go into it thinking "Alpha software, be
patient" rather than "must work must get work done now." ;-)

Havoc