debian?

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 17:00:42 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> For me personally:
> 1) The religious zealotry (the whole 'GNU/Linux' thing) pisses me off
> to no end.

agreed.  And I tell them from time to time too.

> 2) I played with Debian about 2 years ago, and just the install
> [process was painful as hell, and not remotely intuitive.

I don?t find it any less intuitive than, say, SuSE (or any other for
that matter).

> 3) I can't stand apt-get.  I still fail to understand why anyone
> thinks its a good thing.  You end up with someone elses idea of how
> somegthing should be compiled, and you don't have a clue of how
> software is built. And i find the syntax to be really confusing.

You can build from source.  But then, it is more difficult.  However,
the important packages (for me) all seem to built the way I would have
anyway (I still build and install my own kernels regardless).

> 
> I'm sure that others will disagree with me, but those are my reasons.

yes.  IMNSHO apt-get beats hell out of rpm any day of the week.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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