Wow, a flame-retardant answer to a "favorite distro" question! Nicely done, Jason. ;-)
Curtis On Fri February 27 2004 11:36, Jason Louie wrote: > Not always, I was turned off from Gentoo because after almost a month of > compiling, I still didn't have a Working Web-Server on my P233, (of > course this is during my spare time.) > > To sum up the managing/installing/upgrading question here are my > thoughts. > > RPMs - Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora > Tarballs - Slackware > Portage - Gentoo > Apt-get - Debian, Knoppix > > Here are my pros and cons of each. > > RPMs are pretty easy to use after you get used to them. Just look for > the RPM of the application for the distro that you're using and most of > the time you can just install that. There is something called > "dependency hell" that can happen where you pretty much have to upgrade > all the RPMs to install/upgrade a package. SuSE does a good job at > resolving these for you with YaST. I know Mandrake and Fedora have > something similar too. Also there are other package managers that are > pretty nice such as "yum" and "apt-get" for RPMs. > > Debian, (once installed,) is very easy to manage. Simply type "apt-get > upgrade" and everything on your computer is upgraded for you. You have > the choices of installing the bleeding edge version, a testing version > or a old but stable version of the applications. I've never installed > Debian but I've heard that the install is pretty difficult, but once > installed very easy to manage. Since Knoppix came out the installation > of a Debian-based system has been much easier. > > Gentoo is the most recent upgrading system that I know, basically the > code is downloaded to the system and compiled and installed. The > binaries are then very optimized and there is no cruft. This creates a > very fast system and you know everything that is installed on the system > unlike other installers that install almost everything under the sun. > One pitfall that I can't look past is that installing Gentoo on an older > system is *VERY* slow. Not worth, (IMHO) wasting time installing a > system. This is a good distro to get your hands *VERY* dirty. > Upgrading is also very simple "emerge world" would update all the > applications on your computer to the current versions. > > There is a reason why Slackware users like terming themselves as > Slackers. This is also a distro the does not install additional cruft > on your system and a system that gets your hands dirty. Unlike Gentoo > applications are not compiled so install can be very quick if you know > what you're doing. I read cases where people can do installs without a > monitor. The installation and upgrading of applications are not as > simple as the distros above but third-party applications can assist the > installs and upgrades. Swaret and slapt-get are two that I've heard of. > > I've tried all of these distros and for doing so I've learned that > everyone is different and so is every distro... like ice-cream. Not > everyone likes Vanilla and some swear by Cookies-n-Cream, some think > having gum and nuts in ice-cream is wrong. So try the ones you don't > know, (or a least read about them. :) ) and see what you look and > dislike. > > Disclaimer: The contents of this Email is based on the experiences of > the sender. Results may very from user to user. Usage in the products > stated above may cause side-effects such as weight-gain, hair-loss, > high-blood-pressure, sudden Turret's syndrome, decline in social > activity and/or mood-swings. The owner apologizes for the length of the > Email. User discretion is advised. > > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 06:42, Mike Roest wrote: > > You might wanna checkout the distrowatch popularity page. They update > > it weekly. > > > > http://www.distrowatch.org/stats.php?section=popularity > > > > Personally I think the best tool for managing/installing/upgrading > > packages is portage from gentoo. Some people get turned off by the > > apparent complexity of a gentto install becuase it a source distro. But > > I find the install easier then the binary RPM distros > > (redhat/fedora/suse). > > > > Just my $.02 > > > > Juan Alberto Cirez wrote: > > > Just a quick question: What are the main Linux distros at the moment(I > > > mean the most popular) and what tools do they have for > > > managing/installing/upgrading packages....? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
