[Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

[Carl Olsen]

I should add that I'm doing commercial web hosting on SUSE 9.3 now, so
that's why I'm a little hesitant to go with a different distribution.  I
have to set everything up on a different machine first to make sure it is
all running smoothly before I move everything.  When I told my coworker I
didn't like having to reinstall the OS every time I wanted to upgrade to a
newer version, he said that Debian can be upgraded with a package without
reinstalling the OS.  That would be a big help.  It just seems incredible to
me that SUSE wouldn't have the same kind of thing.

So, I guess my real question is whether the above statements are correct.
Can I do version upgrades with Debian without reinstalling the OS?  And, do
I really have to reinstall the OS to do version upgrades with SUSE?

May these rephrased questions will stop any suggestion that I'm trying to
start a distro war.

Carl Olsen
http://www.carl-olsen.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Carl Olsen
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:38 PM
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

Yes, I like yast, and I like red carpet, which is what I'm using now.  Of
course, my only other experience was the free distro of red hat 8, so I
don't have any idea what any of the other distros are like.  I'm going to
take your comments as a recommendation to go with Debian, since that is what
one of my coworkers is recommending.  If I go with Debian, I have someone at
work I can get help from.

Thank you!

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Allen Kiddoo
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 8:22 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

Is it disto war time again?

Suse- you must love yast. I don't.
Debian/Ubuntu- get cozy with the terminal.

Our local group- Pearl City Computer Geek Society has donated
over 25 boxes in the past year to individuals loaded with Ubuntu.
I have had maybe 6 phone calls with questions/problems. I don't
think Mr. Gates could claim that success rate.

Allen Kiddoo

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Carl Olsen" <carl-olsen at mchsi.com>
To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:02:00 -0500
Subject: [Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

> I'm going to convert a Windows XP Professional computer to Linux this
> weekend.  It's either going to be SUSE 10.1 or Debian.
> 
> What's your pick?  Do you like SUSE 10.1 better or Debian better?
> 
> The computer has a Pentium 4 3GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and an 80 
> GB hard drive.
> 
> Carl Olsen
> http://www.carl-olsen.com/
> 
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