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
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