Debian flamewar

Bob Bell bbell at macroped.com
Thu Feb 10 14:12:01 EST 2005


On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:09:50AM -0500, Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> wrote:
> It was largely the issues of "package management" that made me decide to 
> go with FreeBSD and OpenBSD for my computers at home, instead of various 
> flavors of GNU/Linux. I found the ports collections to be the solution 
> to deb and rpm hells.

If you want to try Linux again sometime, I suggest you consider Gentoo.
Probably the most similar to the BSDs wrt ports and such.  I use it and
like it.  There would certainly be a learning curve, but there's a lot
of good documentation at gentoo.org.

    - Bob



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