> Except that urpmi works. Apt-get was nothing but a pain in my ass when I > used debian, it died continuously, I had everyone trying to figure out > why short of Ian himself, and no one could figure it out. I got a lot of > "it works for me", but it didn't for me.
:-) "It works for me." Frankly, I've never heard of anyone else who has had trouble with apt-get. I guess there are always exceptions though... > > 4.) This would further distinguish MDK from the "others" (RedHat and > > SuSE). > > If distinguishing mdk to be different than others were the goal why be > linux at all? Well, obviously, the goal isn't to be *that* different. The goal (IMO) is to distinguish a distro with best features and stability. Moving to a Debian base would go mostly in the features section, since stability would still depend on how the packagers handle things. > I agree to some extent, but I personally have had bad interactions with > the "debian userbase" in ircland and other areas. Debian users as a > majority are the most annoying linux users in the world who do nothing > but complain about Redhat and Mandrake, they say this or that about it, > but when you call their bluff and ask them to show you why it sucks they > can't. That may be. The ones I know are quite helpful, and they've been happy to help with non-Debian issues also (I met the one on a KDE list a few years ago). > So after all the bitching about Debian this or Slackware that I tried > both of them, I liked the simple straight forward installs on both ok, > slackware was fine. Debian was ok, fast install but the apps were older > than Jesus, and updating with apt-get to testing or unstable broke the With a Woody system running "unstable" KDE, you get the basic equivilent of any other distro. However, I would assume that if Mandrake did a Mandrake Debian, this would be a non-issue no matter what, since they would handle the packaging (just like they do now). > system, and apt itself would die 4-6 times during the updates. Got real You had some major config problems or something. That's really bad. I tried a netinst Debian install, and ended up installing over a gig worth of packages between the initial install and apt-getting without a single glich. I would say you definately had a config error as I said, and this is where a super easy, polished interface like Mandrake's would fit nicely with Debian's robust tools. > It rocks just the way it is - why debianize it? I'm just wondering if Debian might not just make Mandrake rock even more (if you caught my review of Mandrake on OfB last week, you will know I do really like Mandrake). -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
