Respecting your choice of distro, I would say, "to each his own". (read:
am not knocking anyone's choice, just voicing my preferences, and reasons
for making them).
I'd just like to add that with package based distros, the 'source
packages' actually contain the tarballs from the authors themselves, and
there is an equal opportunity for 'looking and tweaking under the hood'.
This sort of gives you the best of both worlds.
I use Mandrake's RPM based distro, and i 'hack' my own packages, which
simply means tweaking, pre-configuring applications in its spec file or
'build' file, so that if you had to repeat the setup on another machine,
it's a simple matter of moving over the built package and installing.
In fact, i take this policy to the extreme in that i _never_ install
.tar.gz based packages on deployed systems. I actually go in and create
spec files and packages for it, even if it will take me a day to do so. I
do this because i know that in the long run, i will be saving time, and
effort, and what's nice, i can share what i did to anyone who might need
it.
Again this is not to start another rpm/deb vs. tgz debate. I'm merely
stating my reasons for choosing one distro over the other; which is
exactly what Jijo was asking for.
On 12 Jul 2001, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. wrote:
>
> Well said. But some of us using Linux aspire to become hackers rather than
> providers of stable linux/open solution to clients. So the knowledge of
> what happens "under the hood" is more valuable than the ease of an rpm
> update. And there are a lot of hoods to look under in any UNIX system.
>
> Ambo
> Slackware since 1994
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:50:57 +0800 (PHT), "Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote :
>
> > Therefore i say for the record, that distros like slackware are definitely
> > out of the question. Slackware is good for beginning beginners wanting to
> > know what happens 'under the hood', but by all means they should graduate
> > to more mature distros once they get the picture.
>
> > So what's my bottom line? Simply that you don't need to keep on updating
> > to the latest versions. Doing that is an exercise for hackers over at
> > redhat/mandrake/suse/debian. And they do that for a reason - to get the
> > latest bleeding edge, sort out the kinks, report bugs to the authors and
> > fine tune their distro for users like you and me to deploy with peace of
> > mind.
> >
> > Your job is to provide the most stable linux/open source solution to your
> > clients. And for all we know debian stable is capable of doing that.
>
>
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