Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Buskey
> > > I'm partial to Debian but I'm obliged to work with > RHAT boxes so I sat with a cow-orker as he tried apt > on his RHAT box a few days ago and it appears that (at > least during the simple test-drive we gave) it worked > as reliably as I've ever seen it on a Debian box. > This shouldn't have

[gnhlug-announce] Re: [Centralug] CentraLUG tonight: OpenOffice, Beowolf, Access->Postgres

2004-04-05 Thread Ed Lawson
David J Berube wrote: Hey all, Don't forget - free caffeine, openoffice, Beowolf, and Access to Postgresql tonight. Same CentraLUG time, same CentraLUG channel. Here is a last minute request/question. What about showing how to access Postgres as a data source from OpenOffice? Or MySQL for th

[gnhlug-announce] CentraLUG tonight: OpenOffice, Beowolf, Access->Postgres

2004-04-05 Thread David J Berube
Hey all, Don't forget - free caffeine, openoffice, Beowolf, and Access to Postgresql tonight. Same CentraLUG time, same CentraLUG channel. As per usual, it's at the NHTI. You can get directions on the NHTI site: http://www.nhti.net/frames_Map.html It's in the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore,

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm partial to Debian but I'm obliged to work with RHAT boxes so I sat with a cow-orker as he tried apt on his RHAT box a few days ago and it appears that (at least during the simple test-drive we gave) it worked as reliably as I've ever seen it on a Debian box. This shouldn't have amazed me, but

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Travis Roy
The OP was "what to do as RH keeps changing". Libranet isn't the answer for everyone, but it isn't sufficiently well known that there are alternaives to RPM. This is my only real beef here. It's perpetuated myth about rpm. Rpm is not, I repeat not responsible for the so-called dependency h

Re: [gnhlug-announce] CentraLUG tonight: OpenOffice, Beowolf, Access->Postgres

2004-04-05 Thread James Philipson
Hi David, sorry to bother you off list. Will there be any recording of the meeting done? I cannot make it but would like see the Beowolf and Access to Postgresql portions. Thanks, Jim David J Berube wrote: Hey all, Don't forget - free caffeine, openoffice, Beowolf, and Access to Postgresql

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 13:36, Bill Sconce wrote: > If anyone can stand another flip comment, we have often accused Microsoft > customers of being used to their shackles, of being trapped by their biases. Absolutely. Except that with Windows, you can NEVER have the equivalent of something like

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:54:49 -0400 Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Buying Libranet gets you real Free Software, not the Creeping Proprietary > > which has made RH, and others, increasingly unworkable. Your interest may > > vary, but Creeping Proprietary seems to have been an underlying

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Travis Roy
Buying Libranet gets you real Free Software, not the Creeping Proprietary which has made RH, and others, increasingly unworkable. Your interest may vary, but Creeping Proprietary seems to have been an underlying thread here. CP was the primary reason I decided to dump RH. (I discovered afterward

Re: Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

2004-04-05 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:18:27 -0500 Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:40, Jeff Macdonald wrote: > >[snip] > > So that's my rather biased take on it all. Take it with a grain of > > salt, and with the disclosure that I am a known rpm bigot and still > > somewhat