On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:51:44PM -0500, Graham Seaman wrote: > How odd. I've been running gentoo for a year on my laptop. It's always > worked perfectly for me, whatever I've installed (not geda though). The > only distribution I've tried that has never caused me dependency problems, > where everything works first time, and where I always have fairly > up-to-date versions of everything. How is that people can have such > different experiences (for example, debian has been a nightmare for me > since I want up-to-date-ish versions of some packages, while I know other > people who say debian never gives them any trouble). Is it just that some > people invest more time in learning the details of package management for > their distribution than others? Or is it just luck?
I've had conflicting experiences even on the same version. For instance, Debian 3.0 installed perfectly on P2-350 I had. A few years later (3-4), I go to reinstall (a harddrive failed partially cripling the machine), and the second time around, for the life of me I can't get Debian 3.0 to install nicely. So, for that machine I switched to Ubuntu. It went on flawlessly and has been painfree since. I think Ubuntu is most likely going to be my first choice of linux for the time being. Although, I use RHEL3 and RH9 at work. -- Joshua D. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
