Am 19. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Trent Shipley so:

> Some time ago (about RH 7.0) I had intolerable problems with a Red Hat
> release.  I tried Debian and never really got it to work, and I tried SuSE.
> At the time (SuSE 6.x or 7.x) SuSE worked fine for me.
>
> I have come to regret that choice.  So much comes in RPMs, but for Red Hat and
> Fedora.  On rare occasions things come as *.deb for Debian and its
> derivatives.  It can be a real challenge to find SuSE RPMs, so when I REALLY
> want something, I usually just get the tarball, then chase dependencies and
> tarballs until the @#$% system administration project works or I give up.

Well, SuSE should be providing lots of prepackaged Free Software. It used
to be bathroom sink as well as the kitchen sink.

I'm not too familiar with it at this point, but YaST should take care of
dependencies as well.

> The Debian web site is a mess (at least in English), the search is turned off
> (and has been pretty much every time I visit the site), and I am not certain
> what tarballs (if any) I want for bootstrapping my my machine into *.deb

debian has a package called alien that can translate to/from tarball, deb
and rpm. Don't know if it'll cover everything you're needing. Don't know
if it's available via SuSE.

> competence.  (I am also not certain there is a point.  However, at one point
> there was some sort of standard for the location of files in Linux and I
> remember reading that both Debian and SuSE were much better at following the
> standard than Red Hat.)

There was the filesystem heirarchy standard attempt. debian, SuSE and Red
Hat all mostly followed it, I think. Now we have the LSB, the Linux
Standards Base, but filesystem heirarchy is only part of what it covers.

SuSE and debian were the most LSB compliant when they first started
testing. Don't know that they're still LSB compliant. There was also a new
version of the LSB pending approval a year ago, so I don't know if they
matched that or if it got approve.

ciao,

der.hans
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