Thanks for providing the workaround. I have fairly uptodate packages (KDE 3.1, Gimp 1.3) on a stable distro, and Red Hat puts a lot of effort into making sure they have a consistent looking desktop environment. Beneath that, little things attract me to the distro - initscripts always have a `status' parameter, the online documentation seems to suck less, in the latest redhat-menu packages, menus are *finally* arranged logically (what I could consider a first for Linux distros), the initscripts leave a cleanly arranged set of messages behind, good FHS / LSB / Freedesktop support.
What I head from a lot of Debian people seem to be either technical comparisions of the latest Debian and a 6 releases old version of Red Hat (which is what most Windows / Unix people do when comparing OSs, so no big deal), mention of standrds support in Debian policy (but standards I'm interested in come from dictated by the LSB, FHS, and Freedesktop.org, all of which Red Hat follow) and stuff about Red Hat being part of the some evil corporate conspiracy because they're successful (kinda odd when there's so many other non OSS distros who could be considered much more `evil' than Red Hat - ie, Suse). For a home machine, I could use testing (and have before). But I find all the stuff I really want is on unstable. By the time its available in testing, its usually out for Red Hat. And cause of the reasons above, I'd prefer to stick with Red Hat. Just my $0.02 Mike On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Mike MacCana"> > > > I don't consider testing to be stable by a longshot. In the last Sarge > > netinst I did a couple of weeks ago, the installer failed to use the > > correct name for the network card driver, and failed creating an ext3 > > filesystem on the hard disk. Switching VTs to a command line and running > > the commands necessary to do that fixed things, but its little things like > > that that seem to dissuade me from running Debian at home. > > Install stable, upgrade to testing or unstable. The installer is a whole > different kettle of fish to the distribution -> using unstable installers is > like chasing semi-trailers with your teeth. :-) > > - Jeff > > -- > "Stay away from my house, you freak! Can't you see that everyone is > buying station wagons?" - Neal Stephenson, ITBWTCL > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
