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Re: gEDA: Some suggestions

On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 03:51:44PM -0500, Graham Seaman wrote:

> How odd. I've been running gentoo for a year on my laptop. It's always
> worked perfectly for me, whatever I've installed (not geda though). The
> only distribution I've tried that has never caused me dependency problems,
> where everything works first time, and where I always have fairly
> up-to-date versions of everything. How is that people can have such
> different experiences (for example, debian has been a nightmare for me
> since I want up-to-date-ish versions of some packages, while I know other
> people who say debian never gives them any trouble). Is it just that some
> people invest more time in learning the details of package management for
> their distribution than others? Or is it just luck?

I've had conflicting experiences even on the same version.

For instance, Debian 3.0 installed perfectly on P2-350 I had.  A few
years later (3-4), I go to reinstall (a harddrive failed partially
cripling the machine), and the second time around, for the life of me I
can't get Debian 3.0 to install nicely.

So, for that machine I switched to Ubuntu.  It went on flawlessly and
has been painfree since.  I think Ubuntu is most likely going to be my
first choice of linux for the time being.

Although, I use RHEL3 and RH9 at work.

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