On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 19:15, David Mann wrote: > Peter Elliott wrote: > > > i was referring to the hassles of actually getting the things to run. i'd > > deliberatly not made any mention to or about anything to do with closed or > > opensource. > > This is one big thing which is driving me away from GNU/Linux. Things > don't "just work". There are too many dependency issues and all the > fragmented desktops and packaging schemes certainly don't help. If you do a lot of your own compiling I suggest that you install Debian Unstable. Most of the bleeding-edge packages are in Sid, so it takes away a lot of the hassle of installing your own software.
> I used to download all my packages as source and compile them on my > machine but after the problems I encountered with prctools I think I'll > just take the pre-packaged versions from now on. Ahhh, "apt-get"\ldots -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
