Yesterday i bought a magazine which had Debian 3.0 !!!! Installing it was not as difficult as i had thought installing Debian would be. Ok the whole system was now up .... but i did not see much of a difference between Debian 3.0 (which i had heard was so good) right now i am kinda dissapointed right now .... where am i supposed to see the difference between debian and RH ...

of course you can't see the difference by just starring at the prompt

you need to actually try to do soemthing and you'll see the differences pretty fast... of course the basic stuff is just the same, as everybody would expect...

can u elaborate a little more about what exactly u mean ? doing what stuff will i see the diffeence ... just give an example ...

installing new software is the most prominent example...

Off Topic: For general purpose apps, Open source will eventually conquer, not because it is 'right' but because it promises more value for money for everybody except software developers involved in the commercial production of general purpose software.

What a pity, I really wanted to go into this for the sake of my continent? I dunno. but it does not mater any more. I can see this. unless you have a lot of, you can't keep ahead of the open source community in anything for very long.

Ouch!

Back to your topic: If it works well for what you're using it for, I guess you have nothing to worry about. bye!

I can't speak from Debian experience, but I'v used RH, Slackware, FreeBSD [Yeah, not Linux, but pretty similer] and currently I'm using TruboLinux 7, so I can tell you some differences you might encounter.

Like was said software installation; RH uses RPMs, and Debian uses of, all things, Debian packages. Both can [Should be able] use .tar.gz [.tgz].

Setting up user accounts might be a little different, most distros allow you to make one during install, but some like Slackware don't.

Internet setup is probly a little different, RH has a GUI program you enter your connection info into, while Debian [Again not sure] probly has a Shell program, or you enter the info into the file yourself.

XF86 configuration might be a little different depending on what config programs Debian comes with, I know RH uses Xconfigurator and xf86config [This one is pretty standard on just about any distro from what I can tell].

Some distros seem to be aimed more for Workplaces [e.g. RH, Mandrake, ect.] , while others apeer to be aimer [e.g. Debian, Slackware, FreeBSB {Well most BSDs}]more for hacker-ish or techie people.

The more you explore the vast expanses of the world of Linux the more differences you'll notice.

To configure X on debian, you use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". This asks the packaging system to present you with the configurator for your X server. you can also do things like dpkg-reconfigure locales.

Package installation and upgrading is where debian really shines. If you want to upgrade your computer to the latest version of stable, and apt is correctly configured, you can just issue the command "apt-get dist-upgrade" - all new packages will be downloaded and installed, with sensible dependency handling. If you wanted to install something, for instance latex, you can just say "apt-get install latex". All dependencies, such as tex, will be downloaded and installed automatically, along with the package itself.

ok thanks everybody for telling me about the differences .. , anyway yesterday i learnt that the kernel didn't have any ppp support, (so no internet) so i intentionally did this : cd / ; rm -rf /
and now i am revertign back to good 'ol Red Hat 7.3

bah, if you need to use one of those beginner thingies, then at least use Mdk
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You probably could have just installed a kernel image with ppp or compiled ppp support as a module yourself.

thet's true too... and it's even easy
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