Do you hate Debian GNU/Linux?
Sunday, February 27th, 2011 at
09:50
I think I hate Debian
Sorry, Debian
I like Linux
… Don’t like Debian
… Or RedHat
Sorry, Debian & RedHat
Filed under: Debian
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Don’t hate them but I’m a Ubuntu man myself. Though I do dual boot both Ubuntu and Vista.
Dude you should just use Ubuntu forget that Debian crap. Debian is worse than Microsoft.
What has Debian ever done to you? Or Red Hat?
Sorry.
Actually there is a scolding so let’s get this done. Fedora is a Testing Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That means it is LESS STABLE. If you WANT a stable version download CentOS at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/centos
Red Hat itself may be less inviting to the Linux community than they were in 2001 when I started with RH 7.0, but I have to tell you I’ve met a LOT of their developers and I think they are the NICEST people in the Linux world.
Debian and Fedora are for developers anyhow. And these days you will get more support for Fedora if you are involved in an enterprise. That’s just the direction Red Hat is evolving in. Debian is fascinating. Oh, I’m running Sid/unstable on my Dell Dimension 2300. And I certainly haven’t mastered alien or some of those other package tools which would allow me to roll my own distro, but I have so many packages available. It’s sometimes fascinating to watch the soap opera of some of their relationships. Mozilla decides to crack down after its trademark is being pirated. Iceweasel. Joerg Schilling decides he thinks that Sun and OpenSolaris are the best platformas in the world. cdrtools become wodim and genisoimage and he starts with the WARNING WARNING on his website — poor guy. I mean that. Schilling provides a LOT of support for his packages on a couple of newsgroups. Debian is best appreciated as a soap opera: who will its developers fight with next? It’s actually one of the easiest platforms to compile your own kernel on too — my box is running 2.6.30-rc1 (with the only problem being that floppy support is broken again. It often is with the rc1 kernels but that is http://kernel.org doing it not Debian).
On the other hand I’m typing this on a box that is dual-booting slackware and an install of gentoo which stopped working about six weeks ago (last week I did a new install and I can use it if I don’t want X-Windows). This morning I was doing a LA-ARGE download on this box, with Seamonkey, my default for this one, and I got notification that 1.1.16 was available.
I downloaded the source code, the slackbuild directory from the Slackware repository sources directory, opened the file seamonkey.SlackBuild in an editor and changed the version from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16 then saved it, exited, and ran sh seamonkey.SlackBuild. When I finished my download I had a tgz file to run upgradepkg on and I’m running 1.1.16 compiled and patched FOR Slackware on the day it was released.
It’s taken me close to a decade and a half to get this far with Slackware but I’m there.
Richard Stallman said, "Free Software is Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Beer. Robert A. Heinlein said "TANSTAAFL — There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". You pay for it somehow. With Linux you pay for it by taking responsibility for your OS. That is DEFINITELY true of Debian.
I love Debian. She just takes a long time to get out of bed in the morning.
I certainly can understand your hatred of it. I am using Linux right now, and it certainly is frustrating at times.