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Old 02-22-2012, 06:45 AM   #1
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RPM and DEB related query


I was using deb till now. But I am very interested to know that if rpm have same softwares that are available in deb or it has different softwares?
And which among them has more support and softwares available? Which is more stable?
 
Old 02-22-2012, 07:55 AM   #2
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the choice of packaging really should not be a significant factor in your choice of distro. They are both fine, and there are rpms and debs out there for just about anything you want. It's unusual to find one without the other either way around, and they are both stable mature frameworks for software distribution.
 
Old 02-22-2012, 09:27 PM   #3
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Ok I got it. So I will not make difference now on the basis of packages.
Thank you.
Can you reply me which distro is better, I want it best look,better graphics,better community support,and more stable.. Among fedora opensuse and debian which one will you suggest for my requirment
 
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distros look like whatever you make them look like. different desktop environments (gnome / kde / xfce etc...) change what you see 100%. Better graphics? don't know what you mean there. TBH, from the questions you are asking, I would suggest Ubuntu or Mint, which are excellent debian based distros for newbies.
 
Old 02-23-2012, 02:58 AM   #5
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hey you just said that ubuntu or mint is better..
What about debian? Is it better over ubuntu or mint? I am actually thinking to try debian now.
Thanks
 
Old 02-23-2012, 03:48 AM   #6
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hey you just said that ubuntu or mint is better..
If you read the given answer again, you will notice that this isn't really what was written.

'Better' is a value judgement, and the values that you have influence what you judge as 'better'. The answer given suggests that Ubuntu or Mint are well recommended for newbies. Someone who is not a newbie might have different priorities, so without knowing more about you, your values and your experience it would be difficult to give a much clearer indication. (By the way, I also like Simply Mepis, for newbies, but that's by the way.)

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What about debian? Is it better over ubuntu or mint? I am actually thinking to try debian now.
A lot of, but not all, more experienced users prefer Debian to, say, Ubuntu. For a newbie, the fact that Ubuntu puts a lot of effort into making things easier 'out of the box' is usually more important. Quite which is better for you, I cannot say, but I do not know of a Linux distribution which doesn't have a body of followers who think that they have found a distribution which is good for them, at least in certain applications.

Some people will say 'I prefer distro A on the desktop, but I prefer distro B in the server room', so, in that case, they are making a distinction as to which distro is best for a particular application, and they would argue that there is no one best distribution, or that you can even discuss which is best without knowing something of the application.
 
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Old 02-23-2012, 04:52 AM   #7
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Salasi,
thanks for reply. I have decided to go for debian now. I want to try new linux now. Tired of ubuntu.
 
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Yeah, there is no "better". Mint / Ubuntu are just usually the best answer to a question like that as if something else were more suitable, you probably wouldn't be asking the question, you'd already know, or be working it out yourself.
 
  


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