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Interview with Ian Jackson
Figuring you can never get too much Ian Jackson, Trevelyan writes: "Debian Planet has an
interview with the long time Debian maintainer, and a former DPL, a current member of the
technical committee and the author of
dpkg.
Also
announced Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r7 released. In case some of you thought Debian won't be releasing anything this year =)"
I believe what you're looking for is called gentoo.
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pants ahoy
I thought I had Debian 2.2.19...
What is 2.2r7? These version numbers always confuse me...
Anyway, when are they going to release Debian 3??
May 1st was two month ago now!!!
Amen to that.
I was running debian happily, but then I had terrible trouble upgrading to mozilla 1.0. Debian has it's points, but up-to-dateness isn't one of those.
Now I'm running gentoo, which pretty much solves the problem with binary only distributions (yeah, i know, you can recompile with debian also.).
rpm of course isn't anywhere near as snazzy as dpkg: you basically can't do remote, incremental upgrades without reboot
I always thought that it were the "losers" in de Debian userbase who don't know anything, but it seems that it even counts for project leaders.
Dpkg and rpm can do just about the same.
You can use a frontend for them to handle the dependencies, like apt or urpmi.
With rpm you can do incremental upgrades. I'm running Mandrake Cooker for about one and a half year, and it mostly works (ok, it's a development version of Mandrake).
Rpm can do post-install scripts and all the rest.
And you can upgrade from a gcc-2.96 distro to a gcc-3.1 distro.
It annoys me to hell when I read messages from Debian users on forums or on Usenet like "rpm sucks" and then try to explain why. Now, if even project leaders talk this kind of shit, it explains to me why the Debian userbase sucks.
Well, I can only assume he hasn't seen rpm in 5 years or so.....
That's the only excuse I can think of.
Well, don't worry about that. We can get you back before you leave. (Dr. Who)