Sounds like a go ahead to stick with familiar turf - RH7.2 And I agree - their package manager sucks, but Anaconda rocks as an installer - with the exception that it won't tell you on the fly if you have bad packages, it just gets to some point and chokes. Had that happen a couple of times.
This should be a hella challenge, but I'm looking forward to it. Greg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Polley Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Redhat (vs debian) / BSD OK? Personally, I use Red Hat 7.1 and have had no problems building FlightGear. I have had some problems upgrading to 7.2 so I have stayed where I am. From the friends that I have who use Linux, Debian seems to be the preferred distribution. Debian has a superior package manager, but I have found old versions (2.2) to be rather difficult to install (OK, I prefer the graphical installation process of RH). I am planning to transition when 3.0 arrives (soon?). Jonathan Polley p.s. I have had none of the problems with OpenGL that is warned in the FAQ and am running gcc 2.9x, rather than 3. On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 06:23 PM, Greg Long wrote: > I don't want to turn this into a distro debate, but I'm fixing to > install Linux on my Thunderbird 1333 /1gb RAM workstation mostly for > the purpose of joining in on development. > > My question is primarily this: Other that personal preference, is > there any major need to install Debian over RedHat Linux 7.2 for > FlighGear development? I notice the gcc issue in the FAQ, but I > should be cool on that with 7.2, though I'll check. > > I have a friend who might join in as well, and he has an OpenBSD > setup. If there are any known issues with FlightGear work on that > platform please advise. > > I'll study the program and source some more and get it to compile > before I mouth off with more questions :) > > Greg - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
