On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 09:36 -0600, Tyler Strickland wrote: > On 09/16/2005 12:23 AM, Steve wrote: > > I remember dependency hell. It's a vague and distant, yet unpleasant > > memory. > > Thank heaven for Gentoo ;) > > Fortunately, since moving from RedHat 9 to Debian a few years ago, > dependency hell has been a rare thing, and when it does happen it's > generally easy to fix. Back in the RedHat days, though... The day my > distaste for RPM's reached its peak was the day I had to download a > package from CPAN to satisfy an RPM dependency. I have had no desire to > run an RPM-based distrobution since then. Ich. Just thinking about it > gives me chills. > > --Tyler > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ Three years ago I stuck RedHat 9 on my laptop and never worried about it. I really hoped that I could treat it as an appliance since all I want to do is run eclipse and a j2ee server. It worked well, but then it got corrupted and since I was using suse 9.3 somewhere else, I threw that on. It did not recognize my built-in wireless and I could not get it to fill the screen. I had a Ubuntu set laying around (they send 10 - anyone want one?) and I installed it. It found my wireless and filled the screen which I thought was a nice thing. Is that a strength of Ubuntu or could I count on it from Debian or Gentoo? Looks like I might have to learn more about Linux than I care to. Have things changed much since Xenix? :0)
-Al /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
