[Gllug] Debian hopeless

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:39:22AM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> 
> 	Ok There are only really three Linux Camps but many distributions.
> 
> Camp 1: Redhat,
> 
> RPM Based, So its SUSE, Fedurara (How do they wish to spell it?) Mandrake,
> etc.

dictionary.com:

fe·do·ra    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (f-dôr, -dr)

    A soft felt hat with a fairly low crown creased lengthwise and a brim
    that can be turned up or down.

;-)
> 
> Camp 2: Debian,
> 
> Deb based, so Knoppix, Gnoppix, Woody, Sarge, etc etc
> 
> Camp 3: Others
> 
> Slackware, etc.
> 
> 	The advantage of Camp Debian is you can actually uninstall what
> you don't want any more easily and keep that up to date. I've not yet
> worked out how to do that with Camp Redhat without needing to use fdisk
> about once every 6 months.

With Slackware it's +very+ easy to uninstall packages. You just have to
know it's not going to impact anything else you need on the box!

RedHat, I'd agree, is more "restrictive", but this is due in part to my
lack of knowledge/time to fully understand what installing a particular
package _means_ for my system.

> 	Ok so I do install from source for somthings (mostly at work) but
> with appart from the annoyances of writing init scripts its lovely.

Same here. I just don't trust packages on the net (and I don't mean paranoia
about "backdoors", just did they compile against the same library versions
I have?).

I am interested to try Debian's package management, as Redhat does piss
me off in this dept. But slack is very nice!

Ben
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