Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 16, 2007 12:24 AM
First of all, why don't you try to be a little more polite?
I'm well aware that you can use apt-get with rpm, it's just that it's not the default for say Fedora, CentOS or openSUSE, so I'm not sure if it is suitable for production systems in these particular distributions. You know, who guarantees me that it won't break my system on the next upgrade?
This brings me to another thing I like about Debian: The possibility to do live upgrades. Fedora does not officially support this, which sucks. I know that you CAN do it, but since it is not supported chances are high that you will end up with a hosed system. I'm not making this up, it has happened to me before, and having to reinstall anyway made me switch that particular machine to Debian too.
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Re:Go Debian!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 16, 2007 12:24 AMI'm well aware that you can use apt-get with rpm, it's just that it's not the default for say Fedora, CentOS or openSUSE, so I'm not sure if it is suitable for production systems in these particular distributions. You know, who guarantees me that it won't break my system on the next upgrade?
This brings me to another thing I like about Debian: The possibility to do live upgrades. Fedora does not officially support this, which sucks. I know that you CAN do it, but since it is not supported chances are high that you will end up with a hosed system. I'm not making this up, it has happened to me before, and having to reinstall anyway made me switch that particular machine to Debian too.
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