Am I wasting my time with Red Hat?

[Bern]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 1:47 am, Christian Herzyk wrote:
> 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
>
The thing about slack is that 99.9% of the time source code just compiles, no 
muss, no fuss, no need for package management.

-- 
Regards,
Bern
http://www.p-two.net
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