Future (RPM based) linuxen: RHEL, FC, WBEL, Mandrake, SuSE?

[Travis Roy]

> Buying Libranet gets you real Free Software, not the Creeping Proprietary
> which has made RH, and others, increasingly unworkable.  Your interest may
> vary, but Creeping Proprietary seems to have been an underlying thread here.
> CP was the primary reason I decided to dump RH.  (I discovered afterward that
> RPM Pain was a sufficient second.)

Please explain "Creeping Proprietary"?

And I have to admit that RPMs were a pain until I installed apt from 
freshrpms.net.. apt-get on Redhat rocks.

> C.  Libranet is easy to keep up to date.  I am no Debian guru, but Synaptic
> and apt-get have made it a piece of cake.  Dependency Hell is a thing of
> the past.  (Do stay away from dist-upgrade once you mix in from Testing and
> Unstable.)

Doesn't not having dist-upgrade remove one of the best things about apt?

> I don't know of anyone who has tried Libranet who has reported unfavorably.
> There have been many _glowing_ reports, including some on this list.

I tried Libranet when it first came out and wasn't very impressed. But I 
am so used to RH that I will admit that at the time I was biased.. (Ben 
Scott will get this) I found Libranet like Debian but without the Debian.

I did install a box with the new Sarge installer and that was 
fantastic.. I didn't actually use the box much once it was installed, 
but the installer is GREAT.