-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sandip Bhattacharya writes:
[snip] > My years of experience being an *user* in Linux has taught me this: > 1. Choose a distro which has a good default repository of packages. I > stopped using Fedora years back because it only had the Ubuntu > equivalent of "main" and everything else had to be managed by > downloading from third party repository like freshrpms etc., which had > their own set of incompatibilities. At the risk of starting a flame > war, I would suggest using any debian based distro(including debian > itself) , enabling universe/multiverse equivalent of repositories in > the distro and take advantage of their huge repositories. If lack of more no. of packages in repositories are problem, use Gentoo GNU/Linux, which is a source-based distro. And customize your Gentoo GNU/Linux according to your flags. > 2. Consider any application which is not available in the repository as > simply "not available". It doesn't exist. Kaput. Live with it. Resist > all attempts to download and compile, especially packages which deviate > even one step away > from "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/$NAME;make;make install". If the port is not in repositories, writing an ebuild (installation recipe from source code) will take < 5 minutes, if it uses the autotools procedure. I've been using Gentoo GNU/Linux since 2007 with no noticeable issues. In case there're any bugs you find, which you can think you can fix it, you already have the source, so simply extract it somewhere, fix the bug, create a patch, and post it to bug tracker and upstream. With binary package based distros, you've to download sources separately :). Ashish - -- ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjHLbYACgkQHy+EEHYuXnTkFgCfbFvjsl/FgLKy6H0fFMbuxHA4 r6sAoOWtN/eHKMayh9Rnm0/TdidRIbMQ =1WDW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
