> I wouldn't try anything else but Red Hat. They have cornered the
> market in my opinion because they have these packages (RPMs), you see?
> They make installation of new stuff painless. No messing with sticky
> tar files and then running scripts. No need to download compilers,
> libraries, and compiling. And moreover, I noticed that KDE menus get
> updated by these RPMs depending on what you install, and I haven't
> seen a Bash script inside a Tar file do that before.
> The only drawback to RPMs are that they're not an open standard, at
> least I don't think.
The management tools stink, IMHO.
Maybe I'm using the wrong tool (rpm) but I'm always caught up
in dependency hell. I'd rather have something a bit smarter.
Or maybe I'm just using it wrongly?
I think that Debian's system (APT) is the most goober-proof
get/install system I've used. RPM is not at all my favorite.
That being said, I run a few RH machines. One of them is going
to Debian sometime next month.
Quote:> At first I liked GNOME (the default on RH) until I realized that KDE
> was faster and had more tools to manage things. Plus, KOffice is far
> more superior, in my opinion, than Open Office -- the fonts look
> better and it loads 100x faster.
It seems to me that Gnome runs on smaller machines than KDE. Has
this reversed? I work with old hardware, so "faster" usually means
"smaller" because RAM is scarse. "Slower" usually means "swaps more".
I think KDE is "nicer" but Gnome is what I tend to use on all my
pathetic, old machines.
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