[LUNI] Re: Seen any good distros lately?

[Mike Scott]

One thing I like about SuSe is YAST.  I had too many trips into RPM
"dependency hell" with 'Hat and don't relish the thought of going back
down that road.

- Mike Scott


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Re: Seen any good distros lately?
> From: "Samir Faci" <sfaci at cs.uic.edu>
> Date: Sun, January 07, 2007 6:28 pm
> To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> just my 2cents.
> 
> --
> Samir
> 
> On 1/7/07, David Gibbs <david at midrange.com> wrote:
> > Mike Scott wrote:
> > > I used to use Red Hat, but got tired of having to pay a subscription fee
> > > to easily recieve patches and updates.
> >
> > I went directly from Redhat 8 to Fedora Core 4 without _too_many_ problems.
> >
> > I used to use slackware, but found the upgrade process to be way too
> > painful ... but that was a long long time ago.
> >
> > Since then I've become quite accustomed to the RPM system, so I've stuck
> > with it.
> >
> > david
> >
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> Samir Faci
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