On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 26.01.2013 22:07, schrieb James Freer: >> From what i have seen of fedora and centos in the rpm world the repos >> are very much better in the debian world. To me the stability comes >> from the distro and it's repos. Not being able to install Abiword or >> yumex, having to spend time selecting options for repos to me simply >> isn't worth it. >> >> I've just installed a Slackware distro today and it's the best i've >> ever tried in 6 years of using linux. It's speed, ease of installation >> put's it in a league of its own. Or as their 'chilling warning goes' >> Once you go Slack... you never go back! > > have fun with a package management without dependency tracking > well, without the probles above are hidden, but not solved > > a funny thing to play with - but laughable for production environments > which you maintain over many years without reinstall them ever > Like debian is improved on with derivative distros, when i said slack i was referring to a derivative Salix... with package management Gslapt which is very similar to synaptic. Hate to say it but imo very much better than yum. You've been a nice friendly crowd but centos isn't for me. james _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos