Re: Please don't step on others' toes... (was: Mandrake is a clunky piece of sh!t, and an embarrassment to the Open Source/Free Software communites)

On Saturday 31 May 2003 10:29 pm, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > I truly can't imagine how. Waiting for urpmi to download stuff only to
> > have rpm return dependency conflicts is all too predictable an event
> > here. I wish they'd used apt-rpm instead, which is (supposed to be) much
> > better. Yes, I appreciate apt-rpm didn't exist at the time the decision
> > was made.
>
>   Have you tried changing your mirrors? Perhaps using the Easy URPMI
> configurator (I can get the link to it if you don't have it already)?

Yes. That's what I use.

> > > , and that is one reason I give it glowing
> > > reviews. :-) Although, I would note that MDK 9.0 got far from a glowing
> > > review on OfB.biz... 9.1 will get... you'll just have to wait and see.
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > It didn't? Uhh... *goes to read it again*.
>
>   Nope. It got a "B," IIRC, with massive reservations against deploying it.
> SuSE won.

I have terrible memories of what happened the last time I gave SuSE my money. 
And the fact I can't test it out without giving them more of my money puts me 
off a lot.

> > Do my well trained receivers possibly detect the slightest hint of
> > sarcasm?
> >
> > :P
>
>   Nope, I reall do appreciate folks that don't blame the messenger. :-)
> Trust me, I get a lot of flames on each review I do.

Well, so I gather. But then that's life for anyone who holds an opinion ;).

> > >   Well, MDK -- the company -- wouldn't be begging so much if it wasn't
> > > for the world class management team that wrecked it two years ago.
> > > Hopefully they will be fully back on their feet soon. In the mean time,
> > > MDKClub is getting to be a valuable tool -- special mirrors, RPM
> > > database, etc.
> >
> > I'd sooner just go back to Slack, which has always worked perfectly for
> > me, no matter how much I tweak it. The slightest attempt to customise
> > MDK, like, for example, installing anything, consistently yields no
> > results but disaster.
>
>   Well, I don't know what to say. Although, if your heading back to Slack,
> you should stop and try Debian on the way. :-)

I like Debian, but they're a little too behind version wise for my liking. 
Slack is usually up to the minute without being bleeding edge to the extent 
that nothing works. It's also easy to update things how you like, which I 
approve of. Not that it's the perfect distro; if I had the perfect distro I 
wouldn't *need* to update things how I like.

Oh, and SysV style init scripts scare me.

-- 
dan

"Were i susceptible to having my mind changed, it would have changed my mind" 
- Matthew Parris

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