Ubuntu Linux losing popularity fast. New Unity interface to blame? | Royal Pingdom

[Michael Butash]

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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