Re: Linux Workstations

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin

It's been a while, but I really like Debian. I started with it 6-7 years 
ago. I think there's something called alien that can convert between 
package formats? Have you tried that against IBM's stuff?

Vern

At 08:10 PM 10/2/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:02, Bob Cagle wrote:
> > I'm curious - how does the new Lindows OS stand-up to RedHat and the
> > others?
>
> Lindows OS is based on Debian <http://www.debian.org> which is a
> non-commercial distribution of Linux. As such it (Debian) doesn't get the
> marketing attention that the likes of Suse, RedHat et al, are able to put
> forward. That in turn means not as many commercial companies produce
> Debian installable packages or test them to run on Debian. Debian
> packages its applications in the .deb format, not the .rpm files that
> RedHat & SuSE use. That means you'll have a hard job installing any of
> IBM's Linux software that (often) only comes as .rpm format :(
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