Why debian sucks.
1) Zealots — They consider debian the only solution.
2) Lack of enterprise support — FAI (fully automated install) is debians attempt at what RedHat’s Kickstart kicks ass at. An easy way to image/build many machines very quickly. Besides this debian-stable’s software is comonly too stale, while debian-unstable, well, is completely unstable. Debian-testing, might be the best, but there is no way to pick a date and keep only the critical things you need. Sure Redhat can be a PITA but at least it supports it’s distros fully.
3) Support — (lack there of) — The people i talked to on IRC consider anyone that has any problems as a “newb” and that they obviously must be an idiot.
4) apt-get is cool — (damn, this was a why debian sucks list, but its not all suckage.)
5) Packages are modified — Debian has a habbit of taking packages like Apache HTTPD and completely changing its defaults, and adding their own patches, while this may seem good at first, it makes pinning down problems and mis-configration more difficult.
Well. Thats good enough for now.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
You are 100% correct, and the guy behind me agrees.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:22 am
May be Debian is a school of thought. But I can’t agree with you if you say it sucks. I found many Debian based distros such as Mepis and Xandros to be really productive, fast and easy. I am not sure of the server deployment, but if the desktop deployment is compared I must say Mepis (a Debian distro) is better than any Redhat Enterprise Desktop.
Well, that’s my personal opinion.