Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)

[Bob Deep <bobd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg House wrote:
> 
> I know a lot of you are running Debian, some are running RedHat, and there's
> a couple with other distributions.
> 
> I tried several of them when I was first getting started and the one that
> ended up staying on my machine was Slackware.  It seemed fairly intuitive
> for me, so I kept it.  Since then I've set up a couple of RedHat systems,
> and now I'm working on a Debian system. 

Yea.. I started with Slackware but I like Red Hat a bit better (at least
at first).  

> Are all you Debian users 6 months behind on stuff (the last frozen release)?
> Are you getting source for these things and compiling them yourself?  

Basically, this is the tried and true way of upgrading.. Get the tarball
and build it.

Red Hat is not all that much better than any other distribution at
this.  RPM's may be a bit more common, but they are not nearly as "up to
date" as the tarballs.. 

The problem with Red Hat is that when you install using a tar file, your
system's RPM database is not updated, and RPM will blindly do things to
break you if you are not careful..

-= bob =-
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