>dselect/apt-get program, or to use Corel's GUI update manager (which would
>be Corel's preferred way). A few mouse clicks later you're updated to the
>latest stuff.
Yeah, this had one of the sec holes, and somebody here referred to it as
distributed system administration. The other one wasn't a debian package either.
Both of the questionable packages were corel "upgrades" to debian slink, so you
have to wait for corel to fix these problems.
That's true that corel has an easy install. But...since it's based on slink, it
has a rather old glibc:
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
More than a year old! And this might cause big problems for you when you would
like to install other packages beside what they give you. And other packages
are pretty old too. This is a big drawback in debian (hence in corel). The
latest stable is so old, and upgrading to potate is still not smooth enough, the
dependencies are broken at some places, etc. Well, it's 4 CDs (just the i386
bins). Still, debian is the greatest for a server because Slink is rock-solid,
but as a desktop, you might want to have the latest versions of some programs,
like xmms, kdeoffice, etc, and since they are usually in rpm for the latest
redhat, they use newer libc.
I had some experience with Suse 6.1 the other day. It's easy to install, not
GUI based, but still easy. Some things were weird in the fs for me, exemple
gratia the libc.so.6 was just the file itself, not a symlink to a file that
shows the real version, like in debian: /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.7.so
I had long experience with Slackware. You don't want that.
You probably know redhat, and I don't know Mandrake. So choosing a distro is
not as easy as it used to be 6 years ago. I will stick with debian though
because it's great for a server and for beowulfs. But if you install Corel, put
www.securityfocus.com as your home in netscape.
Ferenc
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