John Bradley wrote: > > > I rest my case: walt talks about all these different varieties of linux, > RedHat,Mandrake,SuSe, puppy linux and Debian, > all in one sentence. I take it these OS are not compatible with each > other. How the heck can u figure out what runws best with which?
Well, they really are compatible, at source level. In any Linux, given gcc and once solved all the library dependencies (manually or automatically), 98% percent of the times, installing an application from the sources reduces to: #1 Extract the package #2 Run configure #3 Run make #4 Run make install. The other 2% can be installed just reading the documentation that comes with it. Anyway, if you have a Debian derivate, or a Red Hat derivate, you have a repository with almost all the packages you need (unless you really like the bleeding edge, in that case, follow the metodology given before). If you run an Slackware, or an Slackware derivate (like me), you have www.linuxpackages.com, or you can make your packages yourself. But if you really miss the "download, click and install" feature, you still can use PC BSD[1]. The only problem is that is not very ham friendly. 73 de CM3NA [1] http://www.pcbsd.org
