What about post-installfest support?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:24:38AM -0400, Andrew Hammond wrote

> I would suggest that if you're asking these kinds of questions you
> perhaps lack the necessary breadth of experience to make a solid
> recommendation on distros.

  Correct, except for Redhat and Gentoo.  I did use Debian for a while,
but drifted away last summer.  The "stable" versions of GTK and other
libs were so old that Fire-bird/fox and RealPlayer refused to install.
I tried CRUX, which is a light semi-Gentoo.  Then I figured I might as
well go whole-hog with Gentoo.

  I used Redhat a lot from about 6.2 to 7.3 (tried 8.0 and 9.0 but
backed out).  Redhat's RPMs were a pain if you wanted to to do a build
with a lot of dependancies
  - rpm_a failed due to lack of b and c
  - I could load rpm_b, but c failed due to lack of d and e
  - eventually, by writing down all the missing dependancies, you could
    load the missing rpms, and get it to work.  Hopefully, Redhat
    (Fedora) has that problem solved now.

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