[No Troll Plz ] Re: the 'which distro' question

[Tony Alfrey]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Tony Alfrey a ?crit :
>> So I'm getting a new box like everyone tells me to do and now I'm trying 
>> to figure out what to put on it.  I'm an rpm kinda guy in that in the 
>> past I've used rpm from a terminal to install most stuff because I don't 
>> trust a lot of these installer things like YAST.  And most of my older 
>> apps that I want to run on my new box are rpm things.  So it occurs to 
>> me that things like kubuntu that are based on debian require debian 
>> packages, not rpms?  And there seems to be a lot of grief of one sort or 
>> another with SuSE 10.2, so am I left with something like Fedora?
>>
> 
> My, my ! :)
> 
> As you made your own reasonning, I suggest that people don't come back 
> on the distro you've already eliminated so that this won't be a Troll ( 
> For my own I love Ubuntu but you had your reason to not choose it) .

Thanks for your comments, but try to calm down a bit.  I simply pointed out
a)  that I'm more familiar with rpm packages
b)  I have apps to run that are rpm-based
c)  the SuSE list has lots of examples of problems with 10.2

> 
> As a rpm based distro I can suggest you Mandriva http://www.mandriva.com/
> 

Thanks, I'll check that out.


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