On 05/10/09 18:21, john lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:01:10 +0100
> Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
>
>
>> No reason at all. You're just hearing complaints from people who
>> gave up on it many years ago, and never used the more recent tooling.
>>
>> For the record, I'm a Debian user through and through, but *I'm*
>> fed up of hearing these outdated complaints about Red Hat packaging,
>> too...
>
> I hope it didn't sound like I was complaining about RH stuff, I cannot
> comment on recent releases or installation tools I as haven't used
> anything but Debian for many years.
>
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>
> As it happened doing that reinstall meant I could take advantage of the
> new booting process Debian have moved to without any hassles :-)
>
Most Linux distros these days are fine for package management. Sometimes
it is better/safer to re-install and the recent versions of Fedora you
were basically forced too due to adopting latest software releases.
However, Red Hat are the market leaders in commercial Linux and anyone
suggesting their upgrade or package management is second class doesn't
know what their talking about. Their servers run some of the most
critical services in the world and this would not be possible with poor
package management. The fact all Linux distros run pretty much the same
software should now make people realise the distro you run is more about
personal taste, rather than stability or security. This is a credit to
all the open source coders and testers who choose the Linux kernel over
propriety kernels.
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