On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 17:12:02 +1130 Mike Andrew wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2001 12:15, Joel Hammer wrote:
>
> > wouldn't print. Turns out that enscript was not installed on my RH 7.1 box
> > when I installed it as a standard work station, not a server. Naturally,
>
> [snip]
>
> this may be a lesson for us all, in that moving from distro to distro it is
> _probably_ a good idea (tm) to do an everything install. Simply because, we
> don't know the thinking behind a distro's definition of workstation, and
> server and have to come to terms with THEIR view of the world. Blingingly
> obvious is not one of them.
>
> I had similar issues, even after an everything install, where (for whatever
> reason) /etc/rc.d/init.d/network was not started at boot time (RH7.1) this
> relieved the world's tree supply for a little while, as I was unable to print.
Maybe we should start a "what comes broken" in various distros. I got
RH 7.1 because it was preinstalled, but I am not very happy with it.
A broken version of perl was installed (this was discussed on the
perl newsgroup, so I knew about it). I compiled some code that
segfaulted, and when I sent it to the author, he replied :
"No, it means RedHat gave you a broken compiler. All other Linux
distributors use _stable_ versions of gcc - RedHat picked an unstable
version for reasons that no-one else can figure out. Sorry :("
which fits RH's reputation of being sloppy with their distro choices.
If I wanted broken software I'd run Windoze... 8-)
Sigh. I so prefer Caldera - if they would just fix the licensing.
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