Am I wasting my time with Red Hat?

[Christian Herzyk]

Hi,

> From: kde-admin at mail.kde.org [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of
> Bern
>
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:58 am, Christian Herzyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > From: kde-admin at mail.kde.org
> [mailto:kde-admin at mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of
> > > Mick Szucs
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:49, gabriel wrote:
> > > > On March 21, 2003 06:42 am, Martin Thomas wrote:
> > > > > Am I being too harsh on Red Hat, or would it be better if
> I switched
> > > > > to a differant distro?
> > > >
> > > > yes
> > > > you're wasting your time
> > > >   (bring on the flames)
> > > > redhat has refused to keep its desktop software up to date
> > > > favouring in most cases gnome.  often, if you want a software
> > >
> > > upgrade, you
> > >
> > > > have to upgrade your entire distro... which often requires a
> > >
> > > complete wipe
> > >
> > > > and re-install.
> > >
> > > One thing I'm curious about, though.  There are certainly lots of
> > > reasons to not stick with Redhat.  The one that ultimately
> had me switch
> > > to Mandrake was their lack of support for and the damage that they did
> > > to KDE.  I wanted to be able to move forward with KDE releases as they
> > > came out, rather than wait the months and months that it
> seemed it would
> > > take Redhat to come out with binaries for the newest flavour of KDE.
> > >
> > > Today, however, there are KDE 3.1.1 binaries available for Redhat 8.0,
> > > and still no binaries for Mandrake 9?  What's up?
> >
> > Well, some distris are faster some are slower, I think with 3.1 Mandrake
> > was rather quick to deliver the rpms.
> >
> > To give my 2cents to this topic:
> > If you want to develop on and for KDE forget RH go with
> Mandrake or SuSE.
> > If you are familiar with Linux, and want to escape the rpm
> hell, either go
> > with Debian or have a look at Gentoo.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Christian
>
> OTOH, there is always Slackware.
> Thats my 2.2cents (including GST).

Don't know Slackware too well, but I don't think that it's packet management
is in the same league as Debains or Gentoos.

Christian

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