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Re: My distro is better ( was RE: need 4 RH-6.2)
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Yanai Krutman wrote:
>
> > Hi netters,
> >
> > Omer Musaev wrote about the "half-ignorance" of RH, concluding
> > his remarks writing about the inability of RH to produce good
> > software. Omer could you please give us few examples on bad results
> > using RH?
>
> As the people in Aduva, and possibly all Debian addicts will tell you,
> "Kakha lo bonim khoma". Red Hat is a mishmash of packages which are too
> often badly coordinated with suboptimal defaults. Sadly in a way, it's
> the de-facto standard in today's market, so use Mandrake instead of
> RedHat as the "best of the average", but if I was to build my entire
> company's network and servers from scratch, there is a good chance RPMs
> would have been left outside the door and Debian would have ruled.
As long as we're Red Hat - bashing, let me mention my own pet peeve, which
is a kind of promo to tommorows lecture, being about Python and system
administration. Red Hat did the smart thing, by building their installer
with Python. The did the horribly idiotic thing of: breaking the Python
used for the installer in horrible ways so it is hard to use for
independant scripts *and* putting it in /usr/bin, so it is the default.
Now, you can't uninstall it ('cause it's the basis for the whole system),
so you have to build a good python from sources into /usr/local/bin. No
problems with that, except that it is *very dangerous* to have two Pythons
(or Perls) on your path -- you occasionally get the wrong one.
This is workaroundable in real life -- you build a Python in /usr/local
and bear with it (I did it when I had to work with Red Hat), but it's a
horror. So I definitely agree with Ira -- get Mandrake, so you'll be able
to program Python in peace. And if you don't know how to program Python,
just come to my lecture tommorow.
--
Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il>
http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
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