On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: > >>KNOPPIX Is debian based, SuSE is, well, SuSE. I love KNOPPIX for recovery > >>purposes, but i'd never use Debian on a regular basis. The entire > >>religious 'Gnu/Linux' zealotry combined with what i feel is completely > >>stupid packaging give me a bad taste in my mouth from Debian. I'm a huge > >>Redhat fan, although i know some others on this list are not. > >> > >> > >> > > Gotta ask. What is so stupid about what I consider the best > packaging/updating scheme out there. (sorry, haven't tried gentoo) You > can keep debian updated using only a couple of commands once in a while. > (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade)
Not if you want to compile from source. I want what I install to be optomized for my hardware & environment. I've yet to find any easy way of doing that in Debian. > I hear a lot about debian zealotry. Guess I don't see that, but am > certainly open to an explanation... Calling it 'Gnu/Linux' for starters. Some rather ridiculous requirements about GPL licensing. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
