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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well I'd say I prefer Debian based distros mainly because of the > Debian Package Manager, I much prefer it to the dependency hell I get > into with RPM based distros (yum doesn't help me at all). I guess > that Debian and it's derivatives tend to just work and are easy to > configure. What ever happened to urpmi? when i used to use Mandrake "back in the day" it seemed to do automatic dependency tracking in a similar way to apt, the biggest problem i had was dependency hell due to bad packaging. Anyway that drove me to Debian, and now it gets installed on anything i get my hands on :-) Etch on the server and VPS systems, Sid on home desktop and laptop (absolutely no windows there either) and i think i've got etch on the NSLU2 as well. One thing with Ubuntu i have tried to do, is that i am packaging an application for debian, but i am doing my up most to keep it ubuntu compatible as possible and in fact i have lots of ubuntu users using my debs very happily.... Actually i should pull the stats on the http log of the distribution, that may be quite interesting. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html