> The downside is that the more commercial distributions have less incentive > to make the administration task easier. Their packages are harder to install > and configure; but so what? Someone's paying them to do things a particular > way. The 'laziness' of volunteers breeds a desire to distribute and automate > as much as possible; which benefits the end user by making packages more > widely available (many distributed update servers, instead of a few > centralized ones) and easier to install (.debs offer the option of > configuration at install time, rather than being explicitly non-interactive > like RPMs which can and will break things quietly in the background). You pays your money and you takes your chances. Slackware is exempt from this, and this is a big reason I only use Slackware on my production boxes. If a package is not available, it's as easy as 1-2-3 to roll your own from source. No biggie. B-o-B GlobeRunners, Inc. IT Manager 600 Inwood Ave. N., Suite 160 | Oakdale, MN 55128 | Direct (651) 925-1500 | Cell: (612) 850-6940 | Fax: (651) 925-1560 | Email: bob at grunners.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list