Which distro? was RPM's are evil

[Jaco Swart]

While not convinced completely, I'll give RPM's another go :-) This apt thing sounds promising...

There is something else that I have been thinking about lately.

Initially, my decision to install RH7.3 was made because a friend and a friend of his was going to install it, and we thought it would make sense to share the learning curve between us. They had a look see and decided to go for 7.3 because it is supposed to be well supported and stable. Unfortunately, they never got round to it, and I jumped in all on my own :-(

So I'm just wondering: is it worthwhile to stay with RH7.3, or should I go on to more recent distributions?  If so, which one, and why?  Opening a beehive here :-)

cheers

Jaco

Shane Hollis wrote:

Chris Sawtell will confirm or deny this one for me but it is my understanding 
you should be able to patch or upgrade your kernel using the kernel.org site?

If not let me know and I will be happy to lend, give, sell my Redhat 9 CD's as 
required and as it legal. RH 7.3 was fine but RH9 is another beast all 
together an am not enjoying it.

Shane

  

OT: RPM's are evil, and so is RH. Tried to upgrade my kernel for five
nights in a row, and got kicked of very time after 30 min cause I'm not a
paying member and their bandwidth is limited for for non-payers. Where
another ten minutes the first night would have done it.  I call that
positively stupid.