I started a bit earlier ( do You remember Slackware ) After that I went for Red Hat
And got used to the red-hat and friends terminology I can agree on the Debian ways But Ubuntu has taken things a bit too far Apart being too much much windowish for my taste ;-) This morning it took me just 40 minutes to setup a Debian working environment for ooRexx I tried last week with ubuntu and I stopped trying after one day And … a couple of years ago developing with ubuntu Was really painful for the very bad choice they had made for the compiler and the headers Many configure.ac checks had to be rewritten because of that ( I got burned by the atomic support detection ) Cheers E > On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:31, Michael Lueck <mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com> wrote: > > Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel wrote: >> Unfortunately Ubuntu is well known also for its odd way of doing things > > > haha... > > The Debian / Ubuntu way makes sense, the other distros are the odd ones! ;-) > > Seriously... I started out with Red Hat 5.2 back in probably 1999. Yuck. > SuSE, Mandrake... more yuck. > > Then in 2004 my "right hand man in America" suggested I try Debian... which I > had heard had a reputation of being "stick shift'ish"... and quickly > connected with it. > > One of the big draws for me was that dpkg came with built-in package > dependency checking whereas rpm lacked it. > > I am thankful, > > -- > Michael Lueck > Lueck Data Systems > http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
