[oclug] RedHat 7.1 is out

[Gary Sandine]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:07:57PM -0400, Gilles J. Seguin wrote:
> Can you give an example of what you have found difficult
> to managed,
> 
> And how apt-get upgrade was easier to this that particular
> task.

That's a _great_ question.  I don't understand why in some
circles it's so common to see Red Hat bashing.  I like Red Hat,
I like Debian, I like Slackware, usw. They all have their own
pecularities which must be dealt with in order to make a box
behave like I want it to, surely.  Compared to an MS OS (which
I keep around for my kids to play with - oh, and Windows 95 is
my fax/voice mail machine :).... scratch that.  There's no
comparison to be made, in my opinion, for what I like to do
requires a flavour of GNU/Linux.  I couldn't help responding to
this, for I typically use Red Hat (it's the distro I know how to
tame best, due to it being the distro I've been exposed to the most),
and I think 7.1 is really nice, so far.  But, I do wish that some RPMs
were broken into smaller pieces, to help avoid "bloat" due to
unnecessary dependency problems (it seems .deb packages are better
here, no?).

I can't imagine working to configure a Debian box, and later doing
an "apt-get upgrade", and watching it go, or whatever - yikes.  Does
anyone really do that??