Re: [ProgSoc] linux type differences

[Peter Meric <pmeric@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, daedalus wrote:

> Anyway, my question relates to the differences between Debian, Slackware, 
> RedHat, etc. I've done some work with Debian, lots with Slackware and a 
> little with RedHat and I'm wondering if there are any gotchas relating to 
> file paths, etc that would affect software installs.

I don't like RedHat's /etc directory tree. Basically, it sucks. More
specifically, /etc/rc.d sucks. Maybe it's improved, but I wouldn't bank
on it. I have no complaints about slackware, but people say "it has bugs".
I say "so what, just install new versions of buggy software". The other
think people seem to like is packages. I don't. So I avoid them at all
costs unless there's a binary-only distribution. Debian and RedHat have
package archives, but I don't think slackware does.

Peter

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