glibc advice

[Tony Alfrey]

Michael Hipp wrote:
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> 
> Your reasoning really escapes me. You're gonna choose a 5+ year old distro 
> from a long dead company because RH might should have put KDE in /opt?
> 
> Caldera divorced us a long time. Let her go, man.

I don't even think of it as Caldera anymore;  it looks unlike what came 
out of the box.  The only thing about it that is 5 years old is the 
graphic that appears in the splash screen when it boots.

> 
> If you're wary of SUSE, why not run Ubuntu? Or Fedora? Or Slackware? Or 
> Debian? They all "just work". 

Do they?  I'd prefer not a Debian-based distro, partly because of the 
Stallman religion but also because there are usually rpms when there are 
no debian packages.

> And at least you don't have the headache of 
> having to do something as major as a glibc update right off the bat! If you 
> put that much work into *any* distro, it ought to be working great.

If, indeed, they work.  I would prefer not to update glibc. Lonnie likes 
FC5, you like what?

> 
> To each his own. But personally I kinda enjoy learning new things. Especially 
> when there is an ongoing payoff for the effort.

What does "learning new things" have to do with installing a new distro?
I learn something new everytime I compile something for this box.  But 
there are times when I would just like to not install more stuff to make 
apps run.

I guess I'm a little surprised at all of the outrage over the idea of 
upgrading glibc.  I thought you guys were all a bunch of Unix hackers 
(the good kind)?  ;-)



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Tony Alfrey
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