[wellylug] RH replacement (was RH dependencies)

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Mon Mar 8 17:23:37 NZDT 2004


I concur with both of those suggestions - I run numerous debian
(unstable/sid) and gentoo systems with minimal fuss. The redhat server at
work, on the other hand, makes me cry...

-- 
David.


On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, David McNab wrote:

> Two options for long-term bliss:
>
> 1) Debian
>
> 2) Gentoo
>
> Debian is a binary-based distro. The reputedly tricky setup is a
> once-only deal, and becomes second nature after a short time. I
> particularly recommend Debian Unstable (which ironically is more stable
> than most Linux distros), as it has the freshest software.
> Once you've got Debian set up, it's apt-heaven from then on.
>
> Gentoo has come a long way in the last year, and offers fresher software
> than Debian, but at the price of downloading source packages (usually
> bigger than Debian's binaries), and waiting for them to compile.
>
> Cheers
> David




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