Since I've used Debian in the past, RedHat more recently, and now I'm back to Debian on my home machine, I thought I'd put together a list of thoughts that I had regarding features of Debian versus Redhat. This will be flavored by my experience with Solaris, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
- They toss everything into /usr. This is evidently part of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Well, at least there is a standard. Looks like I'm going to have to come up with a dedicated rant on this one.
- The apt-get method of updating the system is really nice.
- Ugh. In the default config, they only recognize the first 8 characters of the password. I suppose they would have to implement MD5-hashed passwords instead of the old DES hash to get more, but they should. RedHat gets this right, but I'm not sure you can use both DES anad MD5 passwords in the same passwd file. FreeBSD and OpenBSD manage to merge the two behaviors.
| Name | Size (bytes) | Date |
|---|---|---|
| axkit_1.4.83-1_i386.deb | 234302 | Mon Dec 10 14:06:47 2001 |
| gnut_0.4.11_i386.deb | 57148 | Fri Jul 28 23:49:53 2000 |
| gtk-gnutella_0.12-1_i386.deb | 56180 | Sat Jul 29 00:21:20 2000 |
| kernel-patch-reiserfsquota_1.0-1_all.deb | 135488 | Wed Jan 16 12:46:29 2002 |
| libxml-libxml-perl_1.30-1_i386.deb | 126272 | Mon Dec 10 14:19:45 2001 |
| libxml-libxslt-perl_1.31-1_i386.deb | 23302 | Mon Dec 10 14:19:46 2001 |
| ognus_0.07-1_all.deb | 2188304 | Tue Aug 13 23:46:30 2002 |
| ognus_0.07-1_i386.deb | 2188396 | Tue Aug 13 23:46:35 2002 |
| rt-doc_2.0.9-1_all.deb | 30878 | Wed Dec 19 13:38:58 2001 |
| rt_2.0.9-1_i386.deb | 208856 | Wed Dec 19 13:39:03 2001 |
