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[Collins]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 18:20:05 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2002 04:33:29 -0600
> Collins <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Libranet recommendations abound.  The last time I checked (many
> > moons ago), libranet still propounded the "old-time religion,"
> > i.e. hopelessly behind the times and offering an older version of
> > Xfree that wouldn't run my video card at the time.  I wasn't
> > willing to go through the work of installing only to need to do a
> > lot of work with the unstable branch (most of which is unstable
> > only from the debian viewpoint).
> 
> The update is pretty simple, involving editing sources.list and
> running apt-get dist-upgrade (or something like that)

True enough, but you need a base system for that.  I downloaded
whatever debian was offering on the web at the time, tried to install,
the installer barfed on my system, and I sent it to /dev/null and
never looked back.  This was during the same time frame when even the
youthful gentoo worked flawlessly for me.  I don't even remember what
the problem was, but I wasn't about to tinker with putting up ancient
versions of all my favorite packages.  debian thinks the older the
better, and even if a package works flawlessly, they don't consider it
soup until it's been run for a long time on e-v-e-r-y version of linux
they support (not just i386).  Since I don't give a rat's petootie
about PPC, SPARC, etc., I'm underwhelmed by debian.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.19+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla