Cool,
Thanks for the tip. I have little experience with Debian as I use it for my
bootable CD. That is what I love about Linux. I learn something new every
day. Even the simple things excite me. On the apt-cache does it search the
description of the package? Does Debian have a global update option like
Gentoo? Let me know, as I am not that Debian savy. I was speaking from
personal experience.
I do agree that it all dpends on your intention. Personally, I love
tinkering with things and would rather wait for things to build. From my
experience both are really great distros, I just prefer Gentoo. It's like
when people ask me about what kind of computer to buy. I always advise that
if you are just a word processor and basic kind of guy buy a simple
computer. If you are a speed demon, play games or just love to mess with
the computer buy a more powerful one.
By the way supposedly I heard that Gentoo is the #1 distro on the Novell.com
site. At least thats what the website claims. I have to admit that Gentoo
is a little addicting.
SSA Ernie Baca
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Customs Investigations
RAIC / Phoenix, Arizona
ebaca@linux-forensics.com
www.linux-forensics.com
>From: James Mabry <jamabryl@student.gc.maricopa.edu>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: C Libraries
>Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:53:30 -0700
>
>Ernest Baca wrote:
>>By far it is superior. It is sort of like combination of ports and
>>apt-get. The one thing I personally like is the ability to search the
>>packages. With apt-get you have to have the name by looking it up on the
>>internet or just know it.
>
>Nah just 'apt-cache search <foo>'
>
>Mark,
>I don't have a point a point by point comparison but in my experience both
>distributions package managers have the same functionality. You just have
>to decide whether you want to wait around for stuff to build, but have the
>software tailored to your system. Or be using your software right away but
>maybe not run as quickly as it could or have more options compiled in than
>you need. Of course there is a WHOLE lot more to it than that like the
>differences between the philosophies of the distributions and development
>processes so I'll stop now :).
>--
>Slackware Linux -
>Find out about the 4S rule.
>www.slackware-advocacy.org/whyuse.html
>
>Then try it out for yourself.
>www.slackware.org
>
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