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i give up, Redhat 8 is such a kludge of a deal, too bloated for what it is, Redhat7.1 was their last good release, i tryed 7.2 & 7.3 and they showed me that Redhat's distro was steadily getting worse...
been using mandrake part time since 7.2 and when release # 9 came out it looks like mandrake is finally building a decent distro...
enough rant about RPM based distros, my favorite is still Slackware:D
Frith
02-24-2003, 06:43 AM
RPMs are the devil.
Real hackers compile their own software...or at least they use a package management system that doesn't breakz0r their b0xZor. Heh...
mdwatts
02-24-2003, 08:33 AM
./configure
make
checkinstall
Best of both worlds for rpm based distros. :)
Originally posted by mdwatts
./configure
make
checkinstall
Best of both worlds for rpm based distros. :)
good ol gcc:D
Arcane_Disciple
02-24-2003, 11:42 AM
I'm using Red Hat 8.0 and compile from source from force of habit. I had slack on my laptop for a few weeks and now i just compile the source without really thinking about it.
hlrguy
02-24-2003, 11:55 AM
Originally posted by Frith
RPMs are the devil.
Real hackers compile their own software...or at least they use a package management system that doesn't breakz0r their b0xZor. Heh...
I like rpms. They are easier to uninstall and don't find the dependancy hell all that hard. No more so than trying to resolve dependancies with ./configure. Also, when I want the extra performance, like with Tuxracer, I recompile the source rpm. No biggie.
hlrguy
i can handle Rpm dependency problems, usually i just make a temp directory, put my rpms in there untill i have everything to make it work, what my peeve is all the bloat, it is getting bigger & & bigger even with custom installs it can not be trimmed down much without breaking half the OS & apps,
also peeve #2 that redhat-service.conf tool that lets you disable items from loading at boot time, i have disabled some items and on next boot i can see them loading as if the OS does not listen to my requests, after fiddling with Redhat-8 for a week i give up on it, i am sticking with Slackware8.1 sure it takes a little more manuel tweaking in CLI but it is worth it, cleaner and lighter too, and it likes tarballs better too:)
if you ask me Redhat8 and newer seems to be just dumbing it down too much, Mandrake does this too for user friendly purposes, i agree manke it user friendly but don't ignore the user, thats how i felt with redhat8 like it had a mind of its own and it just ignored me...