Peter Osborne wrote:
>
> On December 6, 2001 02:59 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > well you picked the only one that you can't really order - As far as I
> > know there isn't a debian based distro left, the Progeny installer is
> > crap and I don't know if they are still shipping it.  I put Debian on my
> > Apple laptop and it took a week of painful work, but now that it's
> > running it is so much better than an RPM based distro.
>
> Oh, and I just remembered. Libranet is based on Debian and you must buy it,
> no free download. Never tried it myself though. Storm & Progreny are the only
> 2 I tried, both have since closed shop. (I really liked Storm, it was my
> first install, too bad)
>

OK, now you Linux guys have to explain what's so bad about RPM? From what
I've seen sof ar, it seems like a godsend compared to swinstall and even
patch/ix.

Richard
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