On Sunday 14 July 2002 7:33 am, David Megginson wrote: > Victoria Welch writes: > > As for jscal, I am unable to locate it for mandrake. The source I found > > (which seems to have been an early version ?!?!?!?!) wants to be > > compiled into the kernel and I find that just too odd. > > I'm very surprised that this is not a standard part of Mandrake, > because I've heard many people who like that distro. If it's not, > perhaps your life would be easier if you switched to another distro, > because there must be many other things missing as well -- several > FlightGear developers use Debian, which is beautifully simple to > maintain and update but slightly harder to install than RedHat. When > you read about a new program and want to try it, it's usually as easy > as > > apt-get install <whatever> >
Which is good if you know the exact package name. > > All the best, > > > David Debian is great but with all the talk about learning curves SuSE may be appropriate. It's closer ot RH (mainly because it's rpm based) and has plenty of GUI config tools and online updates. In the long run, Debian is a better choice, but SuSE would make it easier to concentrate on FGFS in the near term. TTYL J _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
