At the end of the day its' user preference .....all package management implementations atm have there advantages and disadvantages regardless of distro , it is just what your comfortable with at the end of the day ....I personally found rpm management in redhat/mandrake a pain in the a%^ , that doesnt mean that one distro is any better or worse than the other .......at the end of the day the source for each package comes from the same point , the only code alteration to the stable packages in most distro's (redhat excluded ;-) ) is to suit the individual layout of there os ......any distro can be as secure/insecure , stable/unstable as the other it's depends on how whoever set it up did so .... Just my 2c
Cheers Dale. Quoting Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 08 June 2003 16:20, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > I have been most impressed with Gentoo Linux, which is a kind of > cross > > between Linux and the *BSDs. They have essentially borrowed some of > the > > better ideas behind the *BSD Ports system while retaining the Linux > kernel > > etc. This allows _you_ to control the whole updating bit. They, > Gentoo > > Central -- for want of a better name -- control the ports tree with > extreme > > rigour, but do keep it up to date really pretty well, with _working_ > > programs too what's more. If you want to cut yourself on the bleeding > edge > > then you can too. They now offer pre-compiled binaries. > > > > Certainly, Gentoo offers, in my experience, an infinitely superior > method > > of package management than either of the commonplace alternatives. > > > > Definitely a much less risky way of doing things than trusting that > some > > anonymous pfy has got everything correct when he built an rpm file. > > Seeing as the compilation / installation is automatic, I really doubt > you go > thru the code by hand first (no?), then how is this any better than a > binary > distribution? Is there a reason why one should trust Gentoo developers > (or > BSD developers, in Jim's case ;-) more than anyone else? > > Sure, installing packages (whatever form they be in) provided by your > distro > is a better idea than installing 3rd party apps, I'm not disagreeing. > But how > is Gentoo (or BSD) unique here? > > It seems Chris trusts Gentoo developers. And Jim trusts BSD developers. > Well I > just want to stick my hand up and say, damit, I trust Debian developers! > ;-) > I would assert that official Debian (stable) packages are controlled > just as > rigourously, and of just as high a quality as any of these other > systems. > Would anyone like to disagree? > > Sure I could mess that all up by installing 3rd party apps (and > frequently do, > heh ;-) - but why can't I do that, compile 3rd party apps from source, > on > *BSD or Gentoo? hmmm? > > Just because your distro of choice provides official packages, > controlled by > those who control the distro (what a novel concept eh? ;-) .... that > doesn't > make your distro: > a) unique > or; > b) better > > in any way that I can tell. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. > > </rant> > > Cheers, > Gareth > > ps. all in good fun - I'm just as zealous as the rest of you (hey... > where is > Jason? can't we expect to see some Mandrake comments added to this? ;-) > > I'm not trying to start a distro flame war, honest :-) > > pps. I downloaded Knoppix for the first time the other day (on a 56k > modem - > so that should be 'the other week', heh ;-) via bittorrent. Bittorrent > is > impressive. Knoppix more so. My brother has a computer that will only > run > windows 95, we've tried and failed many times to install various > versions of > windows and linux - put the Knoppix CD in and it detected everything > perfectly, sound,video,network, the lot - all up and running in about a > > minute. I was very impressed. > > >
