On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > 1) "Debian is too far behind." The stable distro isn't updated as often as > many people would like, but I've had extremely few problems with running > unstable (and those few were invariably fixed within a day), so this is a > non-issue for me. And it's pretty easy to run a mix of versions if you want > to stick with stable, but need a few things that are only present in > unstable. Actually I made a startling discovery the other day: there are *no* PHP4 RPMs anywhere in RedHat's distro *or* libc6 contrib mirrors (that I could find). Yet even potato (debian's current frozen, soon-to-be-release distro) has a full complement of PHP packages. Point: in a growing number of cases, it seems that Debian's growing developer base and centralized package structure (keeping all packages well organized into clear, obvious sections) is beginning to really pay off -- and yes, it seems Debian is pulling ahead of RedHat in keeping packages current (*hugs*unstable*). :) > 2) "Too many things aren't available as debs." Yes, it's true - for > whatever reason, Red Hat is the 'default' Linux flavor, so RPMs are a lot > easier to find than debs. That's why someone invented alien. See above. And in addition to alien, there's stow (./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/pkgname; make install; stow -vvv /usr/local/stow/pkgname), and there's always debhelper for compiling software into Debian packages. :) Don't take me too seriously here. I'm just shooting my mouth off again. :) Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa Kevin R. Bullock --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org