7 Aug
2004
7 Aug
'04
6:12 p.m.
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 06:33, robin fell wrote:
Hmmm, not recently, right?
There were some problems in RH8 (or was it 9?) where sometimes rpm would
hang, but that was a while ago.
Last Friday 06
August 2004 03:01, Russell Hanaghan was like:
> I need to stretch my wings a little and try something outside of
> Mandrake 10.0...
>
> Can I get some basic pros and cons of the different distro's you're
> using? And especially from previous Mandrake users.
I gave up with Mandrake at 8.0. It was OK(ish), but I have a nasty
habit of breaking _anything_ based on RPM.
Tried Planet, but based on RH meant endless RPM database woes for me :( Ended up on Gentoo, but I can't really recommend
it for general use by
others;
cons
1. easy to select configurations (via USE flags) that break your system
2. easy to select (via USE flags) configurations that _nearly_ work :(
3. takes ages to compile things from source, with little real benefit
4. fills your HD with source code (minor niggle really)
pros
1. i've not managed to break portage yet. this is numero-uno for me
because i killed MDK and RH several times - requiring a reinstall [note:
yes i do know about rpm dB locks and dB repair tools, but they failed to
fix my dB]
Yuck.... I guess I'm lucky. I've never gotten that far in breaking a
system through rpm alone. Just curious, which is the last version of
rh/fc you tried?
I'm currently considering a change of distro too -
I spend too long on
admin issues, and not enough time hacking/recording.
Probably true of any distro if you want to use the latest versions of
audio packages (and who doesn't!). Let us know what you find...
-- Fernando