[aclug-L] Re: Why Debian?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So a god reason to use Debian here is because if you need to change the
> > configuration, you can just telnet or ssh to the box and edit the config
> > files, you don't have to get an X display to configure the "proper" way,
> > and then of course if you have a 100 like machines, you could just rsync
> > the new file out to all them.
> 
> You could do the same thing on Red Hat

Debian's better advantage is that you can put all those config files into a
.deb (I believe John Goerzen did this at WSU when he co-admined there...)

You could, of course, do that w/ RH, too.  But we all know that .deb is
superior to .rpm :P


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