the 'which distro' question

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 06:55 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 03:28 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >> 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?
> >>
> > 
> > Fedora is not that bad! I use it on my laptop, and for a time, even used
> > it on a server. The great thing about Fedora Core 6 is all the
> > eye-candy, like Beryl, which makes it look so much cooler than Windows
> > XP. The bad thing about it is that updates come hard and fast, and every
> > 6 months or so, you will feel compelled to install (note: I did not say
> > upgrade because the upgrade process can be very painful) the next
> > version of Fedora. That can be a real deal-breaker if you need a distro
> > that will stay on your computer for longer than a year. You'll probably
> > need a good backup and restore strategy for data and applications, if
> > you want to use Fedora, so each release cycle is not so traumatic. 
> > 
> > Well, just my 2 cents...
> 
> Well, can you all comment on why I would need to do this frequent 
> upgrading if what I manage to install the first time works well?
> Thanks!
Say mplayer is working just fine and you don't want an update to screw
things up. Just enter mplayer as excluded and it's static. That will
stop yum or smart from ever touching it or anything that it depends on.
Slick. If you like your kernel and are happy with it, just exclude it.
It'll remain static until you decide to override the exclude. Piece O
Cake. Ric

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