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On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 10:17 -0700, Paul B. Henson wrote: |
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> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Dan Noe wrote: |
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> > If that isn't acceptable to you, you should seriously consider using a |
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> > commercial distribution where people *are* paid to fix security bugs. |
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> Having spent the last month trying to put together a reasonably |
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> minimalistic install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an Oracle project, let |
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> me tell you that while they might fix bugs quickly, working with it is a |
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> pain in the ass, particularly compared to the simplicity and flexibility |
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> that is Gentoo. (you have to love wanting to install package A, which has a |
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> dependency on package B you don't even care about, but can't get rid of, |
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> and that dependency cascades into a dozen more packages you want nothing to |
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> do with that have to install just to get package A <sigh>...) |
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I second this, I just finished a rather larger (highly dependency |
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driven) RHEL oracle install and it just re-enforced to me how much |
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gentoo is just plain awesome. There is really no other way to describe |
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it. |
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$gentoo++; |
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Thanks guys! |
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Network Security Analyst |
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University at Buffalo |
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