begin Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:50:11AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > i would _definitely_ without a doubt stay away from debian and gentoo. > > cut your teeth elsewhere. install redhat, mandrake or suse. no doubt > > in my mind whatsoever. > > I have a bone to pick with Mandrake. I don't have any direct experience > with the latest 8.x versions, but I've had to do a lot of tech support for > people using them who are trying to use my software. > > More specifically, they're trying to install libraries and such > (which are part of Mandrake; they're pulling them off the CDROMs!) > and when they finally compile and try to run something, it dumps out a > ton of library-related errors - typically about OTHER libraries not being > found.
this happens. about a year ago, the debian SDL libraries were a mess. it just happens, and will blow over with updates. > So at this point, everything looks happy. Then they run my program and > out come errors about missing libraries. So they e-mail ME. that's what tuxpaint.readme or tuxpaint.faq is for. ;) pete -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
