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Re: Linux Workstations

Martin

It's been a while, but I really like Debian. I started with it 6-7 years ago. I think there's something called alien that can convert between package formats? Have you tried that against IBM's stuff?

Vern

At 08:10 PM 10/2/2003 +0100, you wrote: 
On Thursday 02 October 2003 16:02, Bob Cagle wrote:
> I'm curious - how does the new Lindows OS stand-up to RedHat and the
> others?

Lindows OS is based on Debian <http://www.debian.org> which is a
non-commercial distribution of Linux. As such it (Debian) doesn't get the
marketing attention that the likes of Suse, RedHat et al, are able to put
forward. That in turn means not as many commercial companies produce
Debian installable packages or test them to run on Debian. Debian
packages its applications in the .deb format, not the .rpm files that
RedHat & SuSE use. That means you'll have a hard job installing any of
IBM's Linux software that (often) only comes as .rpm format :(
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