Views from an Red Hat -> Ubuntu -> Fedora migrator

[Ben Walton]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I also know I will never go back to an RPM based distribution after
> having used Debian.  RPM is just way too painful to make packages for
> (and I find the rpm/yum interface too clumsy too).  It was a vast
> improvement over slackware's patchetic concept of a package, but that
> was a long time ago.

I've never understood why people find making RPM's difficult in the
least.  I've always found it quite easy to whip up an RPM for anything
I've needed (which over time grew a large collection).  I'd be
interested to hear why you found it difficult though...

FWIW, I happily use both RHEL and Debian and find that they both have
their place.  If you're an enterprise and can afford RHEL (instead of
CentOS), the RHN is definitely a good value add proposition when
looking after a lot of systems.  Although I use Ubuntu on the desktop,
I cringe when I hear of its use on servers...they've rushed too many
half baked things into LTS releases that you're essentially stuck
with.

Thanks
-Ben
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