I just read an article at - http://linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2001-02/lw-02-penguin_4.html about apt-get. The article was all right for the most part but at the end of the article is a link - Discuss this article in the LinuxWorld.com forums
Within the forum is a posting entitled - Debian ---- not a good choice!!! Here is a <snip> - The fundamental problem with Debian is the way they ship their kernel headers. The /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm never point to the running kernel's source headers but to the headers Debian compiled the entire system with. For example if you are running Debian (potato) your /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm contain the files for Linux 2.2.16 and let's say you are running Linux 2.4.2 on this, if you try and compile any thing kernel dependant, you're going to get a bunch of undefines - try compiling any device driver on Debian!. Please say NO to Debian. <snip> Could someone knowledgable about such things explain this to me? Makes me curious. Maybe I should be compiling my kernels without kpkg? Thanks, kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke