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<blockquote>I'm curious what applications those would be? I've used LINUX as my<br>
primary desktop for a decade, and I haven't had to compile an<br>
application in years. And I'm pretty sure I haven't built a kernel in<br>
at least five years.<br></blockquote><br>(I'm going to pick on Slackware, because it's the distro I had the most shortcomings with, most of it was me being a noob, but some of it was the Distro. My frustration level went from a 10, back down to a 1 after switching to Fedora - which was thought of as a more user friendly Distro at the time)<br>
I remember using Slackware in highschool and having to compile a scientific calculator that I liked, then moving to Fedora for the first time and it being in a yum repository.<br>I also recall attempting to get the latest version of gimp to run and just giving up.<br>
Also pecl libraries never seemed to work with Slackware - You would get errors about missing arguments, this was most likely at the time someone failed to compile the pecl library with proper constants, or defaults, I could never get a PAE kernel to compile on Slackware - worked the first time I tried it on Fedora, once again - it might have been my own shortcomings.<br>
And that's not to say that fedora hasn't been without a few shortcomings; now they've gone to a proprietary network manager which means firefox doesn't detect that it's online (sigh).<br>I will say that Red Hat's decision to make apache into a custom distribution called httpd has to be one of the dumbest things they've done, now there are two sets of documentation for apache; one for httpd and one for 'apache' - at first I wasn't sure if the same commands explicitly applied to both.<br>
<br>Linux is Linux, you guys are correct, I haven't Distro hopped for quite a few years now, and I'm happy, chances are if I went back to another distro now I would have no problems making everything work exactly as I wanted, but that doesn't discount the fact that becoming a proficient linux user was a lot less painful on Fedora.<br>
<br>Of course, I'll probably be an early adopter of Googles Linux Distro if they release it, and I'll be on here signing it's praises (maybe they'll fix gnome?).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:21 PM, John-Thomas Richards <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:44:52PM -0500, Collin Kidder wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">>> Yes, I pretty much feel the same way, despite the fact that I'm<br>
>> currently in the distro shopping phase. I suppose the correct rule of<br>
>> thumb is the same as marriage - play the field, make up your mind, but<br>
>> darn it stick with your decision once you make one. This, of course, is<br>
>> not what I did. I got an OS divorce instead! ;-)<br>
><br>
> Let's call it an annulment instead. ;-)<br>
<br>
</div>Indeed. It's only a divorce if the old OS keeps half your data and<br>
you're *still* making payments.<br>
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