Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:46:37 -0400 | From | Kris Karas <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? |
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Alec Smith wrote:
> I'll stick to Debian -- It might be a bit outdated at times, but Debian > "just works." Maybe RedHat could take some hints from the Debian guys.
Or Slackware, which is clean, simple, eminently hackable, and most importantly of all, does not make patches to programs that gratuitously alter behaviour which you have come to depend upon and expect.
I installed a RH 6.2 system the other day, went to invoke a suite of nice automated kernel building scripts I have used for ages, and encountered many of the issues mentioned in this thread. The more I tried to do, the more tempted I was to pull my hair out (and I don't have as much to go around as Alan :-)
cd /usr/src/ /bin/rm -f linux linux-2.2.17; ln -s linux-2.2.17 linux tar xzf linux-2.2.17.tar.gz if [ ! -L linux -o ! -d linux-2.2.17 ]; then echo "Sorry, `whoami`, but your symbolic link," echo "/usr/src/linux, has just disappeared in a puff of" echo "greasy, black smoke. Try Slackware?" # No -U's were killed in the making of this message. fi
Kris
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