Re: [linux-audio-user] Distro choice :)

el Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:21:10 +0000 Steve Harris <S.W.Harris(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> escribió: my apologies, i see clearly now that it was a rude way of expressing my opinion. anyway, i had made clear that my opinions shouldn't be taken seriously in any case, since in fact i don't like any distribution. i'm glad that you find redhat stable and clean, you can enjoy the excellent planet ccrma packages. i agree that redhat has an excellent installation program, and it's very easy to install and also easy to use, but to be frank and no offense intended, i found many times that the cost of being easy and "user-friendly" is that it's not so robust and clean as it should be. i installed redhat at the school where i work a couple of times (6.0, 7.3, 8.0) and always found a few things that were broken. in particular, i find very difficult in redhat to build and install packages from source, other that those distributed by redhat or specifically built for that distribution. but that might be my lack of knowledge of redhat and of linux in general. best, lj