On 25 Mar 2003 at 11:27, Sukrit wrote: > As far as linux distros are concerned there isn't much of a difference > among them, atleast not like there is a difference between say > windows Me and Windows NT. > > *All* of them distros can do *everything*, with varying degrees of > pain on user's part.
In my experience, if you are user familiar enough with linux, the difference boils down to whether you have enough bandwidth or not. If you don't have enough bandwidth, then you are better of getting redhat/mandrake CDs and install only the releases. No flammage to redhat network and urpmi. but after experiencing urpmi generated rpm db corruption, I am not touching it for a long time. Another reason I don't advice redhat and mandrake as regularly updated distros. because they have a huge tangled depndency tree. Something I have't seen anyplace else. KDevelop depends upon mysql? give me a break. If freeBSD can give you a KDE desktop without even GTK installed, there is no reason why mandrake can't do that. The choice of having only one desktop is lost with mandrake. For good reasons I would assume the same with redhat. Otherwise go for slackware/debian/freeBSD and keep on updating. Both the approaches deliver the required thing. Mostly usable desktop. There are good reasons for choosing either approach. YMMV. I used debian and abandoned it. Just because apt-get works well, it does not mean I keep on adding lines in /etc/apt.sources. I want a single update source which is updated. Debian is too far behind to roll KDE into their unstable/testing tree. Of course that is for good reason of number of architectures they support. Don't have any complains with that. I am looking for slackware for a distro. that I can keep updated. I hope this thing works or I am back with Mandrake/freeBSD. <crib> Why isn't there a distinct separation between base and user system in linux like BSD. I can keep my kernel and libc from rotten ages but still get bleeding edge stuff in BSD. Why can't linux distro. do that. I also like the /usr and /usr/local seperation in BSD. Of course problems with freeBSD are different. But hey!, nothing is bug free </crib> Bye Shridhar -- Churchill's Commentary on Man: Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
