On Tuesday 09 December 2003 04:08 am, Robert Ferney wrote: > I'm in the middle of a re-install, and I don't feel like *fixing* redhat > 9 (again) ... > > Which linux package would yall sugest?
Depends somewhat on your goals. Most of my recent experience is with Debian, which I chose because almost all of the project's internal communications are available for me to read, so I know when to be patient and when to roll up my sleeves and do it myself. I've been very happy with the choice for my purposes, which have included set-top prototypes, web platforms, and providing a lot of technical support for engineering-type groups. There used to be more of a learning curve for the kind of thing I'm doing on Debian, but recent developments like pbuilder (a tool for building packages within a controlled chroot environment) have made life much easier. Enough so that I'm adopting the Debian AxKit packages. I have packaged various subsidiary modules as well, such as Apache::AxKit::Plugin::Session. The "sarge" release will probably come out as Debian 3.1 or 4.0 within the next few months, and I expect that these modules will be included and will work well "out of the box". > I've been using RedHat mostly because I'm used to it, and where they put > all their files.. That and their install process ( assuming you don't > want to change much after the fact ) is pretty easy.. Debian's historical install process hasn't been intuitive to everyone. There's a new installer, fairly late in the test cycle, that is expected to help a lot. But where Debian has always shone is in upgrading from one release to the next, and in minimizing breakage when you install and remove packages. Not perfect, but very good, and IMHO miles better than RH. > I would like to have a pretty user friendly install, and as much of the > packages that AxKit depends on installed from the start.. (Apache > 1.3/Perl/Mod-Perl would be preferred to have on that list) mostly > because I'm a lazy butt and don't want to have to work hard to get this > to work. It's as simple as selecting "axkit" within any of the package installing front ends, which pulls in all of its dependencies and shows you recommended and suggested extensions. If I've done my bit right, you'll get a running AxKit instance immediately. I'll be announcing to the axkit-users list when candidate packages have been uploaded to Debian "sid" (nominally the bleeding edge, but my sid system runs great; but then, I know my way around Debian pretty well) and when they have propagated to "sarge" (the testing framework for the next release). > -Rob - Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
