anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/14/2005 04:35 AM, David Bandel wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Funny, i've never run into any RPM dependency hell, EVER, even back in 
the Caldera days.  I'd consider building from source to a positive, not 
a negative, and RH/Fedora has never required reinstalling to upgrade. 
Overall, your list sounds like a lot of FUD.


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