Debian flamewar

[Bill Mullen]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:11, Bob Bell wrote:
> 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.

I wholeheartedly agree. We run a Gentoo box here, an old dual-PII/350
with a couple of SCSI drives. It gets fairly light duty; its main 24/7
job is running an Enemy Territory server (at et.hubnetworking.net, if
anyone on the list cares to drop by <g>). Gentoo's package management
system, "portage", is just a joy to work with, IMHO.

As for the RPM-based distros, I think Mandrake's urpm* tools are superb.

Just my $0.02USD ...

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Bill Mullen
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