Re: Periodic distro question
"Tom" == Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> writes:
Tom> At this point I'm actually thinking of going back to
Tom> SlackWare or possibly looking into RedHat because of the
Tom> extensive bloat that Debian has shown and the latency of the
Tom> distributions.
As a long time Slackware user (almost from day one) who has now moved
exclusively to Debian I can only say that Debian is hardly bloated. I
run it on (among other things) a 120 Mhz machine with 48M RAM/1.2Gig
drive with great success.
Tom> One thing that I'm really frustrated in right now is that the
Tom> Debian Stable is whoefully behind everything else on the
Tom> internet. Technically, I cannot run the XFree 3.3.6 that is
Tom> provided.
Yup. :-(
Tom> But migration to Testing has resulted in a cascade of updated
Tom> packages, many of whom overwrite my existing configurations.
Tom> This really pisses me off to no end. Combine this with the
Tom> continued abstraction levels of Debian and it is now getting
Tom> harder to use Debian and understand other distributions as
Tom> well. This niche specialization may have won arguements with
Tom> Debian, but it's at a high price with respect to
Tom> interchangeable configurations. I may be able to fix
Tom> something on Debian, but not on any other distro.
I have never lost a configuration file while updating to testing, or
updating testing (which I do at least once a week). The only bug that
has seriously affected me is that gpm insists on starting each time I
upgrade it even while I have it stopped (well, yes, I really need to
use gpmdata and stuff ;-)
Debian is a little abstracted, but I'm not sure why you are seeing so
many problems. Perhaps you want to bea littl more specific (what files
were lost? What abstraction is getting in your way?).
Good luck whichever way you choose to go!
Cheers!
Shyamal
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