On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, Tahir Hashmi spake thusly:
Debian also provides you everything that RHE does and doesnt charge you a cent. Further policy is not bent to pay somebody fat salaries nor tailored to fit bottom lines. So why bother with RH?
Because it "works out of the box." I prefer deviating from a default configuration that just works and customizing to my heart's content rather than going the other way round. Yeah, tell me I'm not adventurous enough.
Debian works our of the box. Debian stable *is* stable.
RedHat has contributed some good things and sometimes they were flamed too but I like them for precisely that - anaconda, gcc 2.96, bluecurve, metacity and so on. They get new stuff out before many others.
If you want new stuff you should try Debian *unstable* -- the newest you can get. The categories give you choice. RH, maybe because they get new stuff out earlier, is not as stable as Debian *stable*