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On 2016-04-16, John Blinka <john.blinka@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for |
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> prompting me to add my 2 cents. |
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Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva |
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almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM |
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dependancy merry-go-round that used to happen so often. I've |
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reinstalled a couple times after major hardware upgrades (disk |
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failure) or decisions to switch from 32 to 64 bits. But I've never |
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needed to routinely reinstall from scratch the way I always had to |
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with RPM-based distros (Mandriva and before that RedHat). With |
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RPM-based distros, upgading across major numbers rarely worked. And I |
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always ended up having to build a lot of libraries and apps from |
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source anyway because of required library version clashes. |
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I still have to regularly install and use RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu in |
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order to test apps/drivers I maintain -- and I'm always glad when I |
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can take off the straigh-jacket and handcuffs and go back to Gentoo. |
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Grant |
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