Re: The Distribution

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

   Becauese every distribution so far is either difficult to install,
   difficult to upgrade or is not well integrated.  Red Hat for example,
   their linux ix easy to install but limited in the number of packages that
   are provided in the distro and they are often broken.  Packages in the
   contrib directory are often not well integrated with each other or the
   main distro, their package selector does not inform you of conflicts and
   dependancies until AFTER you attempt to install the package. Have you ever
   attempted to upgrade a Red Hat system by FTP and had the FTp fail part
   way through leaving your system in an unuseable state?  I have.

Please avoid these kind of stray shots.  It is no time for civil wars
in Linux.  RedHat 5.0 has some problems like 4.0 had.  Some are
RedHat's fault.  Not all of them: today they have replaced MH.  It was
not due to defective packaging or for integrating the latest and
greatest: it is an old bug discovered now affecting also previous
distributions.  RedHat's policy is to build an upgrade and make it
available than the problem be small or big, be their fault or not, and
at times when the software chnges version like it was for XFree 3.3.
So they ever have long lists of upgrades and that plays in their
detriment.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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