[NBLUG/talk] Debian vs. Others

[Chris White]

As an aside to this discussion, I noticed that Mark was using Red Hat 9.  I can't seem to locate it on Red Hat's Web site (and their FTP server has been full up), but I tried http://mirror.nblug.org and found it.  That's the good news.  The bad news is that I at first I wasn't able to download it.  The HTTP server says the files are forbidden.  Then I tried a Linux ftp client.  I can't do an ls on the ftp server, nor can I download any files.

ftp> ls *.iso
227 Entering Passive Mode (208,201,242,2,235,215)
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> prompt
Interactive mode off.
ftp> mget *.iso
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/mirror/redhat/9/en/iso" is current directory.
ftp> get shrike-i386-disc1.iso 
local: shrike-i386-disc1.iso remote: shrike-i386-disc1.iso
227 Entering Passive Mode (208,201,242,2,33,27)
ftp: connect: Connection refused

Then I thought, I'll try FTP Explorer on WinDoze.  I got right in and I'm downloading the files.  So, let me see: my Web browser (Mozilla) doesn't work, the Red Hat Linux ftp client doesn't work, but a WinDoze FTP client does.  Is this a bug or a feature? :-)  Any ideas?

Thanx!

--Chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Street [mailto:jet at sonic.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Debian vs. Others
> 
> 
> It would truly be of benefit for you to learn about the strengths and 
> weaknesses of all the popular Linux distributions.
> 
> Preference and freedom of choice is up to you once you learn 
> what you like and 
> don't like about each one.
> 
> Not fair to pit Debian against the others.  How about;
> 
> Slackware vs. Others  ; )
> 
> In my lab I currently run 3 - Red Hat boxen (7.3, 8.0, 9)  2 
> - Debian 3 boxen, 
> 1 - SuSE box and 1 - Windoze98 box.
> 
>
>