anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[David A. Bandel]

Regurgitating the prose of Net Llama! Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> on
Sat, 14 May 2005 07:42:58 -0700:

|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.

If you haven't experienced RPM dependency hell, you must be a newcomer
(_very_ recent).

I don't have time to sit around building from source on 60 systems. 
Building from source is something I enjoyed years ago when I only had to
worry about a handful of systems.  I just don't have that kind of time
to waste.

And RH/Caldera/etc., _all_ used to require a complete reinstall.  Debian
even managed to upgrade through the a.out -> elf changeover and the
libc5 -> glibc6 changeover.  I don't remember a single other distro that
even attempted it.  I've run Slackware (still do), Debian, RH, Caldera,
and a myriad others including a distro I created using Linux From
Scratch as a base (a CD distro to boot my wireless systems).  My time
now, though, is _way_ too valuable to waste.  I unfortunately have very
little time to play.  Debian is the easiest to maintain, so that's what
I use.  The rest were _way_ too hard in comparison.

Now, it's possible some of the above information is dated.  But when I
moved back to Debian from Caldera, the above definitely wasn't FUD.  But
I know tha whatever you use the obviously the best (for you, but most
definitely not for most others who don't have as much free time on their
hands).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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