On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:45:43 -0700 (PDT)
Linux Canuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have some excellent Fedora people here. I am not one. Pulse audio
> gives people trouble on several distros including Ubuntu.
>
> I have used Mandriva 2008 and must say it works well. It is fast and
> full featured. I did notice that the repositories are not as deep as
> Ubuntu, but I could run much of what I wanted. I do not like their
> package manager. It is not as flexible as Synaptic and the
> descriptions are lacking detail. I also found that I could not
> install some packages due to dependency problems. Once you have lots
> installed, it is only a matter of time before RPMs get out of sync
> and you can't install something without breaking something else with
> any RPM based distro, Mandriva included.
>
> Debian based systems are much more forgiving and problems are far
> fewer. I install lots of programs and I have seen almost any
> conceivable problem. RPM only works if you stick to a small number of
> programs and never go outside of the repositories. Once you do, you
> are in trouble. Compare this to Ubuntu where you can install from
> dpkg, Synaptic, Adept, Ultamatix, Get-deb and more and have few
> problems and the repositories of Ubuntu are deep enough that you
> seldom need to look anywhere else.
>
> That being said, you are right. Mandriva 2008 is worth exploring. I
> use it and like it. I can see where newbies would benefit up front,
> but can foresee problems down the road. ( I began my Linux experience
> with Mandrake, many years ago, pre-Fedora, so I would recommend it if
> I could, as I have lots of affection for it, notwithstanding their
> mistreatment of Gaël Duval.)
>
> Roy
>
> Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free!
> Support Open source.
> <*,)}}+<
> Only dead fish go with the flow!
>
A few thoughts. Have you've tried one of the latest well-known rpm based
distros? I'm not sure if rpm has improved or if distros have made
changes that enable rpm to work better. I haven't experienced the now
infamous dependency hell that plagued people in the past. I have
openSuse 11.0, Mandriva 2008.1, and Fedora 9 on my machine. openSuse
has some software packages that I just haven't seen elsewhere. I hate
how openSuse software is scatterd over so many da*n repositories but
yast is much better and faster than it was. Fedora 9 had an rpm for yum
that can be installed that protects one from removing essential packages
from the base install which works nicely. For those who have had big
rpm problems in the past I can certainly understand the hesitation in
recommending it to new users. That being said I don't think that deb
distributions are without dependency problems entirely either. I have
experienced some dependency problems with Debian but still would highly
recommend it.
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Regards,
Donald Cooley
Registered Linux user 444909
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