[ale] Distro question...

[Christopher R. Curzio]

> There is a distinct lack of package management under Debian and
> Slackware.

I keep wondering when uninformed people will stop perpetuating this
outright lie. (I can't say I've ever seen it applied to Debian, either. I
mean come on.)

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Thus Spake Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com>:
Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:15:36 -0500


> There is a distinct lack of package management under Debian and
> Slackware. In my experience, while RPMs may work with Debian or
> Slackware, they're not designed to do so. I'm most familiar with using
> urpmi under Mandrake, though I have used Yast a bit also. I'm about to
> switch to SuSE on my home machine expressly because the Slackware
> install I have right now doesn't do package managament/updating well.
> 
> That being said, if you're only planning on running this other machine
> as a mailserver, hnalding the preprocessing as you described, there's
> no urgent reason to have fantastic package management, as you won't be
> updating all that often.
> 
> Other than periodic bug fixes, I can't see a reason to be really
> worried about updating a server who only has one task. Presumably you
> won't want to take it offline if at all possible once it's set up. You
> may want to look at www.sol-linux.com.
> 
> They claim to have optimized their distro for servers (hence the name,
> server-optimized-linux), but I have never used it.
> 
> WMM
> 
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