RE: Switch to Red Hat?
Jeff Miller writes:
> Hello Debian users,
>
> I have been using the Debian distribution of Linux for many months now, but am starting to recognize deficiencies in available, up-to-date packages. For example, the latest GNOME files are 0.99.2 but I cannot find .deb files for it anywhere. The best I could find was 0.30. This wouldn't be an issue if I could actually make my own, but many times the packages simply won't build for me. The *other* major distribution, Red Hat, has .rpm files available for the GNOME project and they are pretty much up to date but I can't get them to install on my Debian system. I am torn because I like the fact that Debian packages are easy to find and download, but it seems that Red Hat is more up-to-date. Are there others that have found this as a problem? Can someone convince me not to *cross over*? I am tempted to just run out and purchase Red Hat 5.2 and wipe my Debian system and leave it all behind me. Is there an alternative?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff
>
Dear Jeff,
Do you have other examples? I really agree with you that, at this moment, it
is easier to fing .rpm's gnome files. But you can't forget how much effort
RedHat is putting on Gnome, so it is natural that they should be ahead in this
arena (on the other hand I think "in the old days of 0.30" Jim Pick have
released Gnome .deb's before RedHat had done her .rpm's). If this problem is
restricted to Gnome, wait a little, till 1.0 is out and there'll be no need to
package a new version once a week. I am sure Debian will have gnome 1.0 in
their unstable distribution preaty soon.
Meanwhile, I am planning to try using alien to install gnome 0.99.2. Have
anyone tried this? My idea is installing libgtk1.1.12 and libblib1.1.12
(required by the new gnome) from unstable (they are already packaged, as you
can see Debian can be fast too) and the give 0.99.2 a try.
Best regards.
Paulo.
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