Redhat 9's great, RPM not so

[Robert E. Raymond]

On Friday 29 August 2003 02:38 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:20:34 -0400
>
> "Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:01 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 02:21:17 +0000
> > >
> > > "Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > I finally gave up on Gentoo for my pianist's computer today and
> > > > installed Redhat 9.  It's currently reminding me why I don't use an
> > > > RPM based distro myself, though it is pretty nice and once I get a
> > > > few things fixed it will be great for my pianist (for one he needs a
> > > > GUI for just about everything and Gentoo doesn't provide that).
> > >
> > > Of course Gentoo does not have an ebuild for everything under the sun.
> > > What types of things are missing that cause a problem? Just curious.
> > >
> > > You are not limited from installing RPMs on Gentoo. Dependencies could
> > > probably be a hassle, but they are on a pure RPM system (wherever those
> > > may exist).
> >
> > It's not the apps available- it's the system setup/maintenance stuff that
> > he needs a GUI for.  Gentoo's great for me, because I know what a command
> > line is.
>
> Have you tried kportage?

I have.  Again, not enough like Windows Update in the Ease of Use 
department...

Redhat's nice in that it's got the 'RedHat update utility' for getting 
security updates... as long as I put a web browser, office suite, and DVD 
player on that doesn't crash he should be happy... not everyone needs the 
latest versions ;)

Redhat's slower than Gentoo by default because it's not compiled with the same 
optimizations... but its' still way faster than Win32 so I really can't 
complain. (not to mention it's getting the computer out of my house a lot 
faster).

-- 
Linux EPoX.Linux.Raymond 2.6.0-test4 #1 Mon Aug 25 06:49:22 EDT 2003 i686 AMD 
Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
 06:48:30 up 2 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.59, 0.33, 0.12
The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better."  I can't understand    
why it won't work on my Linux computer.