Support!
One thing I forgot to mention this time around about Libranet: the support.
Libranet is a personal, down-home operation, very much a community, and the
Libranet engineers themselves are available to jump in and help when a
problem arises which the community can't help with.
A case in
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:13:56 -0400
Ed Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 10:13:18 -0400
Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Send me an e-mail if you'd like to try out Libranet. When the kit
arrives I'll bring it to a meeting and/or deliver it to you if that's
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 of a Red
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
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
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.
RPMBIGOT MODE=ON
This is my only real beef here. It's perpetuated myth about rpm. Rpm
is not, I repeat not responsible for the
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,
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
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:40, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
[snip]
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
excellent points deleted
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 of a Red Hat bigot (though not
