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Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro
From: Mark Nipper <nipsy () tamu edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:01:22 -0600
On 29 Jan 2004, DeBerry, Casey wrote:
Basically, we like the Redhat update software, but are not willing to pay for it... Any of the other distro's using update software that will bring packages up to date?
I used Red Hat 5.0-5.2 back in '96 and '97 until I discovered Debian. If you like Red Hat's up2date junk and you're looking to avoid the troubles of having to compile all your own stuff, you should really try Debian. The stable installer looks pretty arcane still, and personally I use Blade's bootbf2.4 netinst ISO's (available at http://people.debian.org/~blade/) to get a 2.4 kernel with ReiserFS, XFS and EXT3 support right out of the box. You might hate dselect and apt-get initially. But if you take the time to learn them reasonably well, you'll be much happier with Debian I think. If you want to have a really fast system and you don't mind waiting for stuff to compile, Gentoo is really slick. It has all the power of BSD's ports system, but it's much easier to update your portage installed applications than it is in any of the BSD's port's systems. It irks me why people even bother with Red Hat based systems or even Slackware at this point. Debian and Gentoo basically represent both sides of the coin as far as ease of use and ability to customize packages, and the package systems in both are next to none. Don't get me wrong, I run FreeBSD (5.2) on all my servers and OpenBSD (3.4) on all my Snort boxes. But there are times when I wonder why I do it. :) It's good to know as many of them as you can though. Then you can decide what fits best for you and your organization. Geez, I even maintain a few Solaris machines still. Talk about masochistic! :) -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: Computing and Information Services nipsy () tamu edu Texas A&M University http://ops.tamu.edu/nipsy/ College Station, TX 77843-3142 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 (979)575-3193 MSN: nipsy () tamu edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL+++$ P--->+++ L+++$ E--- W++ N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP++(+) t 5 X R tv b+++ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat first? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process. ----end random quote of the moment---- ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro DeBerry, Casey (Jan 30)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro David Alonso De La Vega Tapage (Jan 30)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Kristofer T. Karas (Jan 30)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Mark Nipper (Jan 31)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Paul Schmehl (Jan 31)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Tim Sutinen (Feb 01)
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- RE: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Christopher Lyon (Jan 30)
- RE: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro Erek Adams (Jan 31)
- Re: Off topic- Your Favorite Linux Distro M. Morgan (Feb 01)