C-Junkie, if that were true, than I''d certainly not be looking for another distro. If you are right, then where, praytell, can you find slackpacks for most things? Usually even if Linuxpackages does have one, it takes weeks, at least, for a new release of a software product to be made into a slackpack and make it there. If there''s another place with them, then please, let me know where it is, because I have yet to find it.

Anyway, as for Debian, I think that''s what I''ll be going with. I may just shell out $20 to get 7 CD''s of it sent to me, but then if I do that, I''ll have to download a lot of stuff anyway since I want much newer stuff than is in Woody.

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C-Junkie, if that were true, than I''d certainly not be looking for another distro. If you are right, then where, praytell, can you find slackpacks for most things? Usually even if Linuxpackages does have one, it takes weeks, at least, for a new release of a software product to be made into a slackpack and make it there. If there''s another place with them, then please, let me know where it is, because I have yet to find it.

Anyway, as for Debian, I think that''s what I''ll be going with. I may just shell out $20 to get 7 CD''s of it sent to me, but then if I do that, I''ll have to download a lot of stuff anyway since I want much newer stuff than is in Woody.

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Actually it’s not that bad. I bought the cds from www.linuxcentral.com and they arrived in a timely fashion. It should cost about 20 American dollars with shipping included. Just incase you wanted to know.

Yeah, that''s what I was looking into doing, depending on how frusterated I get (I''m trying to get something that gives me a great deal of control over my system, but won''t take up too much of my time). The only newer things I really want anyway are things like GNOME 2 and gcc-3.2, so it shouldn''t be that big of a deal to just upgrade those.

Woohoo, back in town for a day to watch the big game

I think I''ll try to get Debian working now that my bandwidth is reset

TEH UPDATE:

Okay, I''m now using Debian. Other than a few slight problems, I''ve gotten it all working without a real major headache, though I''d definately have one if it weren''t for #debian on irc.openprojects.net. Anyway, Debian ets the thumbs up from me, just because apt-get r0x0rz j00r b0x0rz so much.

Damn you for not wanting *BSD

As one who used to use Debian and now uses Mandrake, I have to say that the biggest thing I miss is apt. Debian packages are so very much better than RPM, it isn''t even funny. It''s probably partially because Debian maintainers seem to really understand how packages should work, but it''s also that the dependency system is much more elegant and useful. If RPM were to curl up and die tomorrow and Debian packages were to become accepted by vendors, I would be a very happy man.

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Don''t listen to me. I''ve had too much coffee.

Of course, if you really wanted to, you could always install apt on any system... But of course, that would involve a whole lot of work. I still need to figure out how to upgrade only certain parts to unstable (mainly to GNOME 2), and then I''ll be good. That''ll have to wait at least until tomorrow, though, since I''ve had tests all the beginning of this week. Woohoo, then finals next week. Can''t wait.

I started with Debian along time ago and hated it thouroughly. Not that I can''t put the effort into installing it or getting it installed it is just a pain in the neck. Same with Slackware.

I like and use Mandrake right now. It is like said kind of buggy and fails to install certain libraries you need (Mesa developer stuff and no option on the installer either). However it''s got that control panel in it which I think is just a kick-a$$ little utility. You''ll still need to get in your config files and tweak things but it makes setting stuff up a breeze. I have no problems at all running it everyday and it required only a little effort to patch up what the installer missed.

I was using Red Hat for a few years. Mostly I stopped because of a bug in it''s installer which hung on my system and wouldn''t allow me to finish the install and post-config part. Red Hat is more robust in many ways and includes alot of libraries that Mandrake forgets which means something if you spend alot of time programming.

If I had been able to get Red Hat 8.0 I''d probably have gotten that but my distro mirror doesn''t have it up and Mandrake 9.0 was ready so I went with Mandrake. I am happy with it and it''s worked out really good so far. But Red Hat has dropped a few things because of licensing issues (MP3 support for one). You can easily get them yourself and build into your box though.

One of the things I didn''t like about Red Hat was a lack of support/interest in KDE at the time because of Qt license. Now it''s not a problem anymore they support KDE equally. It is a big undertaking to install KDE by hand and it takes a long while to get it to work correctly, so I appreciate being able to download a simple installer and patch it when I need to for my system.

That''s my beef on things never tried all the others out there.

Ive been using redhat 8 happily for a few months, migration from windows was absolutely painless.

Now my question: what do other distributions like slackware and debian have to offer that distributions like redhat dont?



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