[ale] Distributions

[James P. Kinney III]

Bear in mind, RedHat is the mot business-like distribution out there
right now. SUSE runs a close second. RedHat is not going put _every_
.x.1 increment as an upgrade. Especially when they have to give it the
RedHat stamp of approval as "Works with the distribution you are using".
So, in some respects, you are correct. They don't update packages as
often as is possible between distribution. 

If some one wants bleeding edge on everything, they need to look
somewhere other than RedHat. Well, except for that little "first distro
to the new glibc", and "gcc-2.96". That pushed the envelope a bit too
much and irritated the people who pay for the shiny CD's.

Bleeding edge distro's are Debian (apt-get everything from the unstable
branch. They call it unstable for a reason), Slackware (compile it
yourself and quite whining about "packages", Mandrake (has packages,
doesn't always test that they _work_ {they have gotten much better},
uses loads of bleeding edge apps).

Loads of folks on this list seem to have jumped on the gentoo bandwagon.
It is certainly a bleeding-edge intstallation process. Or so it seems :)
It _used_ to be (back when ...) the gentoo process was the only process.
Bootstrap a small kernel, a baby-sized library of minimal usefulness and
run a compiler to build a better lib, then kernel, then the compiler
would get rebuilt (twice) then the libs and kernel rebuilt using the now
good compiler. Then the fun starts with the shells and the other apps
you needed.

Rpm's are just way easy! 

On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 19:03, Ryan wrote:
> How are folks handling package management issues? I am doing
> some reading, and see that Redhat is pretty poor about
> updating packages between major releases. What distributions
> and package management techniques are folks using?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
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