Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-31 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:07:14 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny Otherwise it would be interested to learn what it thought of the perl regression tests.

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-28 Thread Mark Rogaski
--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable An entity claiming to be Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : RedHat has involved trying to find suitable RPMs, then manually installing : them. I'm sure

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-27 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 23 May 2002 19:29:43 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:07:14 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny Otherwise it would be interested to learn

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, 22 May 2002 17:57:25 +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: So, I get the impression that discerning hackers use Debian, not only on this list but from yapcs and so. Why is that? I started using Debian because it was the only distribution I could find at the time which supported m68k

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny disk, no ^^ networking, and comparitively ancient Debian installation. I haven't

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Redvers Davies
So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in Distro X? What's bad about distro X? soapbox I would switch immediatly to any distribution that didn't split up libraries and header files. What is the big deal of having them there? shurely its more effort to

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:07:14 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote: My m68k box is now sitting neglected on my desk at home with a tiny disk, no networking, and comparitively ancient Debian installation. I haven't ^^

Re: Linux distribution of choice

2002-05-22 Thread Ian Brayshaw
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what distro do people prefer and why? What's better in Debian than in Distro X? What's bad about distro X? Currently, I'm running DeadRat (have been for about 5 years now). Why? Because I was young and foolish and that's what was on the CDs I found.