I just started using 11.10 and Unity and the only thing I find annoying is hiding the File, Edit, etc menu and minimize, close buttons until you hover over them....and that I needed to know ctrl-alt-t opens a terminal... On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Correct, though those came long after it'd already nauseated me the first > time. When I needed to compile everything I needed anyways, slack was a > much better option - in 1999. > > Fast forward to 2007, the last time I purposely had to deal with RHEL, my > experiences were not all that dissimilar. Much of the software I use is of > a network monitoring nature (snmp, perl, pgsql), and for better or worse a > lot of dependencies that simply didn't exist in repos. I ended up having > to compile a lot of things, and still fell into weird linking errors to > things that were simply never an issue in ubuntu whether I had to roll my > own or not. It was just as cranky as it was 7 years prior. > > Perhaps I'm a bit grizzled and stubborn, but I really don't get why I or > my companies should use RH or its ilk. It's always felt... solaris-ish - > day late, dollar short. With ubuntu on the poop list these days too, I > need to rediscover new/old options so maybe I'll see what the rpm loving > world has to offer these days. > > -mb > > > > On 11/30/2011 11:47 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >> On 11/30/2011 05:05 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >>> I've used every version of ubuntu since 6.04 on the desktop (and >>> extensive server) full-time, and while it's always been a bit cranky, it >>> was always the most together and solid linux. Packaging was simply never >>> a problem, nor were dependencies (ahem, redhat and spawn). >>> >> >> Ahem. 1995 called, they want their FUD back. Package dependencies has >> not been a problem since up2date first, and now yum. >> >> TC >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >