Re: MJR on Linux/OSS

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

> On 09/03/05 22:19 -0500, R. DuFresne wrote:
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> > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
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> > > Oh yes, you can run any distro with no big real difference between
> > > them. The major lines: Debian, Redhat, Gentoo. The rest are clones, or
> > > similar enough to transition easily between.
> >
> > I hate getting religious and all, yet your linux distribution history is
> > limited almost to a tunneled point of view <smile>. The dist history
> > plays out like this
>
> I was not referring to history. I was referring to the mainstream Linux
> package management styles (RPM/APT/emerge). Most distros use a variant
> of one of these three. If you are familiar with one of the RPM based
> distros, finding your way in the others is easy. It gets harder when you
> have to deal with apt or emerge, or .tgz.
>
> I will admit to missing slackware out there though.


tgz. which slackware uses is extremely user friendly these days, in fact, 
to my taste more so then redhat's rpm system.  At least on initial 
install, as it let's me finely tune the setup to a degree that is taxing 
to say the least on a redhat system these days.  Also with upgrades to the 
many packages, at least again to my taste, YMMV.

Redhat < other dists might also > has problems with kernel and iuptables 
tuners, those that like to rebuild their own and make it play with just 
the toys and trinkets they need rather then the 'stock' system offered 
under their dists.

But, having started with sls, and moved to slackware long ago, though 
playing with other dists now and then as needed, I've found that most tend 
to be much more user friendly then was the case 5 or 10 years ago, even 
updated Avolio on something he'd posted about a trial with a linux dist 
variant a year or two back when he was testing the user friendlyness of 
getting the OS up and running for the faint at technical home crowd...

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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