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Linux distribution question. | by dogman0 | 2002-03-08 09:27:26 |
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FLAME ON!!!!! | by wiredog | 2002-03-08 09:33:12 |
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Yeah, Slack and RED HAT PACKAGE MGR! (n/t) | by DaNutBall | 2002-03-08 10:31:25 |
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Nope | by beez | 2002-03-08 10:37:14 |
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Ah | by DaNutBall | 2002-03-08 10:45:31 |
| Well, I for one dont |
by beez |
2002-03-08 10:55:54 |
I don't use Slack for nostalgia purposes - I use it because I like it better. I've only used Linux for about 2.5 years, so I can't be nostalgic about it. Almost all of my friends use either Slack or Debian.
Just as a counterpoint to the entire package manager issue, I use packages for very few things these days. I have very unusual compile options sometimes, so I can't use a package tool (ie my php config line was ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-gd=/usr/local --enable-track-vars --with-openssl --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/include/freetype2 --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib). It is quite unlikely that any package could handle that without just adding everything in. That leads to my other point: packages are often much slower due to comiling for the lowest denominator with all compile options. There are tons of optimizations the compiler can make for your individual system which make it much faster. Anyway, I agree that packages are nice (and necessicary in some environments - I'd hate to compile things for 100-computer clusters), but I choose not to use them on my system.
Beez |
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This is true | by DaNutBall | 2002-03-08 11:07:14 |
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RPM | by RedHatDude | 2002-03-08 11:22:46 |
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