From: Chris Olson (chris@astcomm.net)
Subject: Why Debian?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:32:34 -0600
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pointing Google to "why debian" gets some cool stuff to read:

http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-basic_defs.html#s-difference,
http://lwn.net/2001/0517/a/hp-deb.php3
http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20020629111451/http://www.machineofthemonth.org/articles/a6/page7.html
http://atom.ecn.purdue.edu/~notz/whydebian.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20020119135813/edm.act.cmis.csiro.au/debian/book/Benefits_from.html
http://dudle.linuxroot.org/docs/debian-install/
--
Chris

[RM adds: Please see also Karsten Self's wiki topic on the subject,
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/why-debian-rocks.html . Also:
http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian,
http://web.archive.org/web/20001026153010/news.tucows.com/ext2/99/02/imoore2.html,
and http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/2204/1/.]

Martin "joey" Schulze also has a set of pages comparing and contrasting Debian with the Red Hat distribution: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/