On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Satya wrote:
On Jul 27, 2003 at 18:54, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
And don't take any of this personnally :-) ^^^ <-- smiley alert !!
A smiley! Yikes!
Doc, I recommend Debian. If you happen upon a point where your RH installation breaks, consider switching. I was using RH, and it was up to the point where the RPM DB was broken. Updates were a pain. For a few months, I irritated this list and another with ways to manually upgrade glibc -- something that I don't recommend to anyone except those listed in the kernel's credits file. That's when I switched to Debian. Maintainence is easiest.
Sure, point taken. I too had problems with the rpm db in RH8. I am using debian too on a different partition, but I am still not as comfortable with debian as with redhat at least at present. I intend trying out the knoppix install too.
I had a specific problem (in this case w/ a redhat *and* slackware install). I saw no reason for a rant about how bad redhat was.
It's just that I dislike this fanatical attitude that this distro is bad and this distro is good (heck or even that lilo is better than grub). What's wrong if it just works for me. You know I don't even know what glibc is, let alone wanting to change it :).
-- Satya. URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/ Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
Sharukh.