Re: [Nolug] Arrogant Linux

On 03/10/2011 10:15 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> On 03/05/2011 06:22 PM, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat March 5 2011 6:15 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Evidence: the reason that I moved to Debian is RPM Hell, that
>>>> situation where you can't upgrade a package no matter how many
>>>> conflicting "other" packages that you remove.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ron,
>>>
>>> I have no issue with apt, and have suffered my share of rpm woes on
>>> occasion.
>>>
>>> Though I use a lot of CentOS lately, RedHate just ain't my bag. I'm
>>> old-school
>>> BSD/Slack/Arch when I do things for fun.
>>>
>>>
>> I'm actually (shudder) contemplating a switch to CentOS, since I'm a DBA
>> and all/most of the Oracle databases at work live on RHEL.
>>
>>
> As a desktop?
> CentOS is rather poor desktop choice. IMHO. CLI on it works just as well.
>

Yesh, but the Debian and RH worlds do some things *differently*, and
compatibility would be a good thing.

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