[NCLUG] Bad question I know!

[mike cullerton]

ahh, nothing like a religious war early in the week...
  
like most things in life, the way i use my computers changes over time. when
i was first learning linux, redhat and rpm's were great. if i wanted a new
application, i downloaded the rpm (most things i wanted were rpm'd) and
typed a simple command. everything worked. until that is, i needed something
without an rpm package, and i didn't have the right libraries, and i didn't
really know what i was doing and i upgraded the libraries and broke other
stuff. gosh, were those the good ol' days.

now, i use slackware, download source, compile my own binaries and put them
where they make sense to me. i'm not a big fan of gui interfaces to
administration (which is funny since i'm writing this on my macosx laptop).
to me, interfaces that keep me from really know what's going on hurt me in
the long run. like when i need to fix something remotely, or on a friends
box that doesn't use the same gui.

ultimately, you really need to understand what is going on.

mike

on 4/9/01 10:25 PM, Bryan Watkins at watkinsb at uswest.net wrote:

> To all,
> I've been using Redhat for about a year.  I grown tired of RPM's and files
> always moving with every new release.  I would like to be able to upgrade my
> system but not have to relearn Redhat every time, files keep moving around.
> So the question stands what distro's would you recommend for me to use.  I
> have been hearing great things about Slackware and FreeBSD (even thou not
> linux).
> 
> Bryan
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 -- mike cullerton