On Friday 14 January 2005 5:52 pm, David Howland wrote: > The MD5 will change. True, without exception (Or at least, if anybody has managed to beat MD5, no one knows about it which is improbable). I rolled my own once just to see how hard it was. The reality is that it was not that hard, it was just time consuming. With that said, I've got to agree with Stuart. I think your in dependency hell. What you are describing are the problems I used to have with Linux years ago before the various distributions worked out the various dependencies. Here at work, we use two distributions: Slackware and SuSE. We use Slackware when we need light weight and/or custom installations. SuSE is used for all other uses (Read desktops). RedHat Fedora Code stuff has proven to be too unstable for our tastes. Mandrake is too bloated. Gentoo is a pain to set up (Takes too long, but once it's up your good). Debian is stable, but new releases are redicously infrequent. Slackware and SuSE fit our needs nicely. We found that there is little we cannot do between the two (Or at least we haven't found anything yet). Although, we have a couple of IBM PPC boxes running AIX because the apps that are on it are commercial and have never been ported to Linux. Best Marvin
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