On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Brian Howe wrote:
> Patrick Davalan wrote:
> > Mihai Bisca wrote:
> > > On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Keith Duthie wrote:
> > > > > [Ah-oh, I'm probably going to start a "distribution" war with this, but
> > > > > quite frankly I don't care. :) Point is that slugware is now a
> > > > > historical fossil that has no place except for very specific purposes
> > > > > as a hacker's installation.]
> > > > Slackware still has its uses. For anyone who's used to it, it can be
> > > > annoying to move to a distribution which stuffs about with buggy libc
> > > > libraries and strange directories all over the place.
> > > I agree. Also, I hate rpm and dpkg. These tools are too restrictive.
> > > Keeping the packages tar.gzipped is simple and effective and gives the
> > > user more freedom, in true Unix tradition. Debian takes forever to
> > > install and RedHat is probably going to become the Windoze of the Linux
> > > world. It fucks up even the prompter... :-)
> > I agree too , but there is something good with rpm : they provide a
> > rpm2targz so you can install packages easily from sources and do not
> > have any problem.
> That may be so to you, and many others. BUT, it is really a matter of what the
> individual is comfortable with and what they find to be the best method for
> their particular situation.
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Ahh... for once, a decent discussion about distributions, not leading to
"RedHat sux" or "Slackware is for lusers". Bravo to all of you!
I have to agree as well; I started on an old Slackware disk, and have kept
with it because it is familiar to me. It is what I prefer to use on my
own system. At the same time, my employer here at Rowan likes to use
RedHat, and because of that I've learned the ins and outs of the different
distributions. I now co-administer the web server here, which is a RedHat
machine, and I will admit that every distribution has its own good and bad
points, but one thing holds true: They're all LINUX! Like Brian just
said, perhaps RedHat will be what converts the devout Windows user to
Linux. Maybe the person willing to roll up their sleeves and get their
elbows dirty will grab a Slackware disc. Someone else might get a Debian
or SuSE CD from a magazine. Who cares! It's the underlying OS that makes
a difference, and hell half the time once it's installed and tweaked by
whatever guru works on that box, it looks nothing like it did from the CD
to begin with.
Good to see that not everyone thinks the grass is greener on their own
side of the fence, therefore the world must use their fertilizer.
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