RE: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

So what makes the deb system work for deep upgrades? I remember the
horrors I went through with rpm, especially the snafu of upgrading to
rpm-4. Is deb more flexible about dependencies? Or is it just the
convenience of apt?

My fear with apt is that it'll try to upgrade its way out of dependency
hell, and start breaking things.

I've had bad experiences with Mandrake and simple hardware, like a mouse.
And 8.0 (2.4.3 based) paniced a lot, but that was probably the instability
of that kernel.

-- 
Alex McKenzie    alex@boxchain.com     http://boxchain.com
<quote who="Ron Johnson">
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:35, Pietu wrote:
>> Is there anything positive/negative to say about Mandrake? ( I know Ron
>> likes it. )
>
> Well, it's "works on all h/w, immediately" goal succeeds very well,
> but no, I don't like it.
>
> As with all RPM-based systems, upgrading anything "deep", like
> a DE, common libraries, XFree86, etc, is fraught with danger.  It's
> why I dumped Mandrake and went with Debian almost 2 years ago.
>
> So, if you want to stick w/ the s/w that came on the install disks
> (except for security updates), Mandrake is great!  If you want pro-
> gressive upgrades, and never want to reinstall again, go for Debian
> or it's fellow traveler Libranet.
>
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