Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th May 2003 08:29 UTC
It's been almost a year since our first Linux distro poll, so here is your... annual Linux poll. Click more and vote for your favorite distribution!
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What are you talking about? Debian is both the most complete _and_ the most integrated distribution of all.
What I mean is, that a distribution like Debian "just" packages available software and the "Debian-specific" stuff mostly centers around installing, building, configuring, etc of those packages.
That's not what I meant. I used Debian long enough to know its qualities.
With RedHat or SuSE OTOH, you get a complete and ready-to-go system with all the software you need tightly integrated (like the BlueCurve desktop), often heavily modified from the "original" software. The RedHat GNOME desktop for example is quite advanced compared to the original GNOME desktop.
As you correctly noted, RH and SuSE aren't so much into providing packages for everything but more into providing a solid and stable operating system and then letting the user install new software mostly from third parties.
That's why I call Debian and Gentoo meta distributions. They don't try to build a new system from existing free software but they rather provide advanced methods to install and manage available and mostly unmodified free software. There is clearly a huge difference between these two kinds of distributions.