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

[jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx]

The problem I have with Debian is that in three tries I have yet to have a
successful experience.  It was my preference because the school is using
it, but I must require more active brain cells than the 60's left me with.
Unfortunately, I missed the install party.  I was really hoping the see it
done by the experts (presumably enabling me to mimic the success), but,
alas, it wasn't meant to be.  Other than that, I'm on their side if not
simply because of their "totally free" approach, then because of the
support.





cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx on 03/10/99 10:44:13 AM

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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Greg House wrote:

> Perhaps I'm opening up a can of worms here, but I'm wondering what other
> people's thoughts on this are.  And how others are handling it.
>
> 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.  What I'm finding is that almost
> everything in terms of really current stuff only comes in tarballs and
rpms. > For example, I wanted the lasted version of XFree86, no deb files
available > for it (except some experimental builds a Debian developer
made, which took
> awhile to locate).  I wanted the new Gnome 1.0...rpms...no debs.
> Enlightenment?  NO debs (well, actually debian.org had them in the slink
> directories, but they weren't on enlightenment.org)
>
> 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?  Are > you running development versions of Debian (slink (until
today), potato)? > It just seems like when there's a package manager that
you'll eventually end > up shooting yourself in the foot if you have to
subvert it by installing the > stuff that's not packaged in your package
system of choice.  It also appears > that the only packages people are
doing of really up to the minute stuff are
> rpm packages. I like the concept of Debian.org (totally free), but I'm
> seriously thinking about going back to RedHat because of the availability
of > current packages.  Slackware'll keep track of the tarball
installations for > you, so that might be an option too.
>

I tried redhat 4.2, and 5.0, and after getting sick of things not working
,and since i could get "support" for debian I installed debian.

Yes I do wait 6 months for the newest debs, and that does kinda of annoy
me, but the reason it takes so long is that want to get as mnay bugs out
as possible, and I admit it works. It is very stable.





> Greg
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