Distirbuitions

[Matthew Carpenter]

begin  "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
(Tue, 31 Dec 2002 21:53:30 -0800)

> On 12/31/02 21:33, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > begin  Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> > (Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:58:06 -0500 (EST))
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> What kinda redhat quirks?  I've always felt that SuSE had the quirks 
> (like the rather unusual layout under /etc).
Agreed.  I used to HATE SuSE.  RedHat has had some weird challenges which
has made me "sing it's praises" as is required of an evangelist.  I am in
a heavily Microsoft area so I have a lot of evangelizing to do.  Little
things were just annoying, like their inability to install for me so that
the machine name that I typed in was maintained after install...  The
biggest annoyance was just how difficult it was to configure printing.  I
had a very difficult time encouraging other tech-newbies to use Red Hat
because there didn't seem to be a good way to admin the printing
subsystem.  Sure, I can create printcap files in VI, but they can't
 
> > :)  I liked David Bandel's description of removing the GNU from some
> > files from the debian distro.
> 
> Yea, but that's window dressing, and doesn't change the fact that the 
> zealouts are still out there running the show.  Dave Bandel is by no 
> means your average linux user, so when he works his voodoo, its magic in
> 
> the making.

I was talking about his comments about removing the "GNU" from "GNU/Linux"
:)

> Redhat is also LSB & FHS compliant.  Granted the last SuSE i touched was
> 
> their enterprise server release, and that was still horribly perverse in
> 
> its layout.  If things have changed since then, i might not feel the 
> same way.

I couldn't say.  But if UL is to survive at all I figure I'd better learn
how things are laid out.  The reason I hated it was because it was
different from COL and RH.
 
> You have to compile MPlayer with libdvdcss support in order for it to be
> 
> capable of playing DVDs.  THe same is true for Xine.

I'll check it.  They wouldn't be able to ship libdvdcss, but if the
MPlayer packager cared enough, he might have compiled it with the
libraries and then just not ship them.  Xine looks for the libraries at
runtime meaning that they may or may not be there and it will load and
work.  Does that make sense.

Talk to you later.

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Matthew Carpenter
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