anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[David Bandel]

On 5/13/05, Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/13/2005 07:57 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 5/13/05, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> Ken Moffat wrote:
> >> > Net Llama! wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>subject says it all.  anyone have/tried mandriva 2005?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > mandriva ... dumb name, they could have done better.
> >> >
> >
> > As I mentioned in an earlier post, ManDrivel. I'm not likely to try
> > it. Free is where it's at for me, and for the foreseeable future free
> > RedRat (read: CentOS) since my work is based on RHEL releases.
> 
> must be nice.  why can't everyone just wise up and use RH/FC to make my
> life easier?  ;)

Because Debian derivatives are so much easier to maintain (no RPM
dependency hell), never require reinstalls on "upgrades" (which are
continuous anyway), and with over 18,000 packages, building from
source is rare.  And the Debian packages just work together and rarely
have bugs (they're rather anal about that).

The above has been the norm for many years.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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