[wellylug] Not everyone pleased with new Mandrake renaming/release schedule

[Cliff Pratt]

Brent Wood wrote:
> --- Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
> 
>>Brent Wood wrote:
>>
>>>My brief dabblwe with Debian left me unimpresssed.
>> >
>>Care to say why? I moved from DeadRat to Debian some time 
>>ago, and I'm not likely to change back to an RPM based disto 
>>any time before hell freezes over.
> 
> 
> Ummm, I have had much greater success with both YaST &
 > urpmi/drakepkg to install packages than with synaptic
 > or apt-get. A couple of years ago this might have been
 > different, but that's my experience right now. I think
 > RPM is working much better than it used to.
 >
That wouldn't be hard.
 >
 > I can download an RPM, double click & install it, with
 > all dependencies generally being picked up fine. So why
 > would I move?
> 
Perhaps because you've been lucky? Really, really lucky, so 
far? <grin> I just realised that I started a "distro wars" 
discussion.

I used to be like you, stumbling around in the gloom and 
darness of DeadRat, until I came across Debian and saw the 
light!
> 
> I know another Linux GIS guy who just tried Ubuntu, had all
 > sorts of dependency & compilation woes & went back to
 > Mandrake 10.1 (yesterday) where everything just works.
> 
> Your mileage may differ :-)
> 
Yeah!
 >
> I'm currently using Ubuntu on an A64 box coz it works
 > better on my platform than Mandrake or SuSE. (IMHO the
 > bugs are not out of A64 Linux yet). It may be just the
 > A64/Ubuntu rather than straight Debian, but the simplest
 > way for me to install packages & have then work reliably
 > is tarballed source, then make/make install.
> 
But that way is waaaay risky! You have to check all 
dependencies and relationships by hand!
> 
> If you discuss distros with OS GIS developers (summat
 > that crops up frequently), they seem to be mostly SuSE,
 > Mandrake, Debian & Fedora. A few Ubuntu & Gentoo. I
 > don't know any using Red Hat.
>
I don't know why anyone would use SuSe. I'm sorry, but it is 
probably the worst distro I've ever tried. Slow as a dead 
thing. By far the slowest of the ones that I've tried in 
spite of a fair amount of tweaking. I sorry to say that on 
the *same box* RedHat relatively *flew*.

Like I said, this is turning into a distro war type 
discussion, so I'm not going to respond further, only 
because these discussions go nowhere. I'll look forward to 
the replies on this if any, though.

Cheers,

Cliff