On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OK, before I make my query, this is not intended to start a flame war, nor
> am I really looking for a detailed comparison between Distros. I'm not a
> complete newbie, although often you wouldn't know it. What I'm really after
> is people's opinions on Debian. I know some people swear by it, and
> difficult installations don't really hold that much fear for me. But how
> good is the apt-get system, for instance. I always have big problems
> installing software. RPMs are OK, but source code never compiles right for
> me.
> [ I realise that apt-get won't solve this, but it might ease the pain]
> Of course, Ximian's new Red Carpet might be a better solution, but before I
> part with any of my hard-earned cash I thought I'd ask you all for your
> opinions on this particular distro.
I run debian at home and work and have found apt/dselect to be very
nice. It is possible to get yourself in a mess if you don't follow its
suggestions (ie, you install with --force) - but for the most part it's
pretty nice. Its nice to be able to just "apt-get install lftp" and have
it take care of the dependancies/downloading + installation... Especially
handy for packages you just want to have a quick play with.
SuSE comes with a package called "YaST" which does similar things, but
using RPM's. I used SuSE for about a year and found that the main problem
was that a lot of rpm's are redhat-specific and complained when you try to
install them on SuSE...
Ximians redcarpet looks like it will do a lot of the same things, but then
it isn't stable yet, so I'm not sure I would trust it to handle all my
system packages yet...
Billy.
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