On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:41:29PM -0700, AJ ONeal wrote: >> Eh... I have a strong disgust for RHEL. They have nothing in the repo, you >> have to compile just about everything from source or get it from a 3rd >> party. > > RHEL wasn't meant for you. It's not designed for someone building a > server for fun. It's intended for companies with dozens or hundreds of > servers and don't want anything to change once a machine is working. > Anyway, the goal is generally to not have the latest and greatest of > everything.
I can kind of see where you RHEL defenders are coming from for servers (kind of), but try RHEL Workstation, where you do want extra packages like git or a more recent python and it is teh suX0rz. I say kind of for servers because you might want to run subversion 1.5 because it finally does merges somewhat correctly, or set up django, or ruby on rails, and wo be unto you if so. You start to wonder really quickly what it is you are paying for. Ubuntu, even up through the latest 9.10 has been very good to me. Bryan -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
