Re: BDI candidate...

[Robin Szemeti <robin-at-redpoint.org.uk>]

On Thursday 27 March 2003 22:00, Paul wrote:

> What are the alternatives ? Debian is stable and well respected, and has
> better control over the meta-data headers. Installing is not for the faint
> hearted or the true green newbie (it even scares me).

eep! .. debian .. err deviant as it is known. Now theres a thing ... a 
distribution that is no doubt stable, but comes with almost *nothing* 
configured as standard. its package management sucks bigtime. dependencies 
are a nightmare, I spent a week trying to install the standard set of DJB 
tools (qmail/vpopmail/tcpserver etc) and gave up .. and its installer is not 
nice. I know once you get it set up is is stable, but getting there is non 
trivial. it is all too easy to get the package management into a real mess on 
debian ... I managed it several times without even trying (circular 
dependencies, conflicts etc)

I've been doing sys admin on Linux systems for a variety of clients for 3 
years now, and debian wasted several weeks of my life in frutiless search of 
trying to get even a basic system going. Say what you will, but Redhat at 
least installs out of the box (the debian (potato) installer plain refused on 
2 out of 3 machines I tried) and is fairly stable once up and running. 
-- 
Robin Szemeti

Redpoint Consulting Limited
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