[LUNI] Re: Seen any good distros lately?

[David Gibbs]

Samir Faci wrote:
> hmm.. Maybe FC just got a bad reputation.. but the when I first used
> it... FC1 or FC2 at the time I had a horrible experience with it.  Has
> it gotten any better?

Can't really say ... I never tried FC1 or FC2 ... I started with FC4.
I'm in the process of getting upgraded to FC6.  My only problems so far
is that my media is screwed up.  Might be my cdrom drive.

> My issue with all RPM based distros is that whenever I used any
> distro... is that it starts out with its core packages and the more I
> use my system the more custom it gets and the more from source or from
> 3rd party repos application I add and the less stable my system gets.

I'm usually able to find RPM's for most packages that I want to install.
 Some packages I leave as manually installed (from tarball) though.
Mailman for one ... I don't want it to be upgraded unexpectedly.

> One reason why I'm using gentoo at the moment is that it tends to
> provide just about every package and resolve dependencies using just a
> simple emerge.  Of course getting things to work does take a bit more
> effort, but it does tend to keep on working longer.

Yum seems to be a pretty good job at resolving dependencies.

david