Re: Fedora 9

I used to be a big gentoo person. Matthew is right, compiling can be a pain
in the arse.  I actually worked for an ISP at the time, and the other users
in the office, they were using some version of linux but were rdesktop into
a windows ts server.  So since they weren't using their machines cpu cycles
anyways, I loaded distcc and cc (a cross compiler) to their boxes, and had a
cluster setup for my gentoo laptop.  It made the process a little bit
easier.  Not all packages were distcc capable, but hey it did help out in
the long run.  The major reason I don't run gentoo now, although I've been
thinking about going back to it.  I want something that just installs and
works, turnkey, like ubuntu or fedora.  I don't really want to spend the
time recompiling a kernel when I get home from work.  And as far as package
managers go, emerge is great, but it has borked things up for me in the
past.

-Jonathan Lindsey
Network Engineer
3D Research Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
allan
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:28 PM
To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
Cc: Allan Emord
Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9

Hi!

At the risk of throwing a monkey wrench into the works...
I don't see any activity reagarding gentoo on this UG. I've been running it
on multiple machines for several months and I'm quite impressed with
"emerge," gentoo's answer to "yum and other package managers. The
repositories are quite well stocked and I was really surprised when I had to
upgrade Perl to multithreaded for Apache mod_perl )one of those mutliple
dependency issues) - it went very well, without a hitch.
Any gentoo fans out there?

Peace,

Allan


On 05/15/2008 09:21:45 AM, Eric Krieger wrote:
> Nice and flawless are two different worlds.   Yum has it's limitations
> as I recently found with trying to install phpmyadmin on a RH ES 5
> server which once install required php-mcrypt ...which required
> mcrypt..etc...none of these where resolve installing it via yum.  
> 
>  
> 
> Eric
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lindsey
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
>  
> 
> I dono.  Yum is quite nice, and I use it for adding software for the
> most part.  It's rare in RH/Fedora that I install from an rpm.  Usually
> if it's not in yum, I'm going to have to build from src anyways.
> 
> -Jonathan 
> 
>  
> 
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> 
> Network Engineer
> 
> 3D Research Corporation
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Eric Krieger
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:10 AM
> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
>  
> 
> I'd really wish that red hat/fedora would address the rpm dependency
> hell that is encountered with rpms.  That would be major development in
> my book.  
> 
>  
> 
> Eric
> 
>  
> 
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lindsey
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
>  
> 
> Fedora 9 comes out tomorrow.  Most of the MVLug users know that I'm a
> big fedora fan.  I will be installing both fedora 9 x86 and amd64
> kernels as soon as I get them downloaded, and will definitely let people
> know how they are.  Fedora 8 has been relatively stable for me, and I'm
> happy with it.  I hope that 9 continues this progression.  I know that
> there's a new version of KDE this release... and a few improvements to
> the acpi.  If anyone has questions about this os, please don't hesitate
> to ask, I'll do my best to answer what I know, which some may say isn't
> very much.
> 
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> Network Engineer
> 3D Research Corporation
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> Nice and flawless are two different worlds.   Yum has it's limitations
> as I recently found with trying to install phpmyadmin on a RH ES 5
> server which once install required php-mcrypt .which required
> mcrypt..etc.none of these where resolve installing it via yum.  
> 
>  
> 
> Eric
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lindsey
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
> 
>  
> 
> I dono.  Yum is quite nice, and I use it for adding software for the
> most part.  It's rare in RH/Fedora that I install from an rpm.  Usually
> if it's not in yum, I'm going to have to build from src anyways.
> 
> -Jonathan 
> 
>  
> 
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> 
> Network Engineer
> 
> 3D Research Corporation
> 
> 
>  
> 
> From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Eric Krieger
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:10 AM
> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
> 
>  
> 
> I'd really wish that red hat/fedora would address the rpm dependency
> hell that is encountered with rpms.  That would be major development in
> my book.  
> 
>  
> 
> Eric
> 
>  
> 
> From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lindsey
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Fedora 9 comes out tomorrow.  Most of the MVLug users know that I'm a
> big fedora fan.  I will be installing both fedora 9 x86 and amd64
> kernels as soon as I get them downloaded, and will definitely let people
> know how they are.  Fedora 8 has been relatively stable for me, and I'm
> happy with it.  I hope that 9 continues this progression.  I know that
> there's a new version of KDE this release... and a few improvements to
> the acpi.  If anyone has questions about this os, please don't hesitate
> to ask, I'll do my best to answer what I know, which some may say isn't
> very much.
> 
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> Network Engineer
> 3D Research Corporation
> 
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