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Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486
From: |
Liam Proven |
Subject: |
Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486 |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:32 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) |
> Because Red Hat Linux is based on RPM and System V. This project started
> as a Red Hat Linux based one, and many of us want *Red Hat* Linux, not
> Slackware or anything else. At least this is true for me.
Fair enough!
I strongly recommend you to take a look at some other distros and see just
how very far behind the times RH is, though.
I started with Red Hat, too, when I wrote my Linux Masterclass article for
PC Pro - it's on my homepage. Takes a novice from "what is Linux?" to
building a complete small business server. I'm rather proud of it. RH was
a good server distro and still isn't too bad, but it's a very weak
desktop.
> Furthermore,
> you will find precompiled RPMs for Red Hat Linux for nearly any
> software, which is especially important when dealing with proprietary
> software. Thus it's a good idea to have a Red Hat Linux compatible
> system.
Up to a point. The world doesn't revolve around RH, though.
> Well, this *could* be circumvented by 1) using apt-rpm as found on
> http://freshrpms.net/ and 2) placing RULE mirrors instead of the Debian
> ones into /etc/apt/sources.list. Again, I don't think it's worth the
> effort.
I think you're wrong. I think it's an absolutely brilliant idea and would
be a HUGE help. Without a dependancies database, RPM is badly broken.
> My proposal, if Red Hat decides to switch to i586 packages,
> is to recompile the whole distro for i386 and make it available for
> download. Of course, this might not be worth the effort as well... ;-))
I think it's the only way to go.
--
Liam Proven http://welcome.to/liamsweb
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, (continued)
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/26
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/28
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Liam Proven, 2002/10/28
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486,
Liam Proven <=
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Colin Mattoon, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Marco Fioretti, 2002/10/31
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Marco Fioretti, 2002/10/31
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/31
- [Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386, Richard Kweskin, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Not so many rpms need i386, Martin Stricker, 2002/10/30
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Liam Proven, 2002/10/29
- Re: [Rule-list] Red Hat No Longer Supports 486, Marco Fioretti, 2002/10/31
- [Rule-list] "Red Hat" label effect, Richard Kweskin, 2002/10/31