On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:36, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx hat gesagt: // eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:50 , anahata <anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sent: > > >Initially yes. Once it's all working, Debian's the package management > > >system is far more bullet proof than rpm. > > > > This is why Planet CCRMA uses apt-get for their RadHat distribution. > > apt != dpkg ! > > CCRMA uses apt to check dependencies or rpm packages, which still > are a bit different from deb packages. > I simply meant that you didn't have to go and get rpm's. As far as dependencies go Planet CCRMA handles all that. I used to do it brute force but I really like what Fernando has done with the planet. > Regarding user friendly installation of Debian: I consider ease of > installation an very overvalued factor. How often do you install a > Linux system? This isn't Windows. I installed my main Debian system > about six or seven or more years ago using Debian 1.2 and a pre-2.x > kernel. This system has followed me over lots of harddisks, CPUs and > mainboards and kernels, constantly upgraded with pure dpkg and later > apt. > My first install was 0.99 kernel in 1993, no distros at that time - that was a PITA ;-) You're right though, unless you're administering many systems it's a one shot deal. > Clean package management is much, much more important than ease of > installation, and Debian simply has the most robust package management > there is. (Maybe beaten by Gentoo, but I'd like to do other work > besides compiling, too. ;) > The planet is just push button so far. I haven't had any problems loading anything even when I want the latest and load from source (very seldom - last time was testing TAP plugins for Tom). I set up a system for my drummer so he could use Ardour and it hasn't been online for 6 months. I went over to his place today because his Windoze box died and he wanted to put the Linux box online. Two commands and he was up to date: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade I'm not Red Hat centric - I think any distro is probably fine. It's just that I am very impressed with the work that Fernando has done with the planet. It's the fastest, simplest way to set up a Linux DAW that I know of. Jan
