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

["Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What have been your problems?


On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 jeffrey.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
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> cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx on 03/10/99 10:44:13 AM
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> Please respond to aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> To:   aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc:    (bcc: Jeffrey Hansen/BFTC/Bombardier)
> Subject:  Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)
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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.
> 
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> 
> > Greg
> >
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