On 2003-07-17, 16:21 GMT, Heiko Schröder wrote: > Uff. Again the same question: why is Linux so fascinating since installing of > packages can be so very, very difficult and can take you whole days to get > things done? It is really a phaenomenon. Indeed.
Since the commercial distributions (RedHat, Suse, to name few) have very limited resources to maintain properly all packages developed for their distribution and they concentrate on the most profitable ones (hint: desktop is not the most profitable part of Linux business). I have no religious belief about GPL, but I find Debian much better maintained in this respect. Matej -- Matej Cepl, GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
