synaptic (slicker than snot on a brass doorknob!)

[dishawjp]

Hi All,

I just finished installing apt-get and synaptic for Red Hat 8! WOW!!! I had the apt-get for RH 6.2 which was nice, but with synaptic in RH8 added... what can I say, this is great stuff!!

This is the kind of stuff Linux needs to drive the last nails into the coffin of M$ and Windows.

Void main, thanks for posting the links a while back.

Creedon, thanks for expounding at length on the advantages of Debian's apt-get over RH rpm.

This really is a keeper!

ok... sorry.  been sipping lots and having fun torturing my new Linux box. Damn, I love beer and Linux!

Jim

[dishawjp]

Hey void X11,

You're not a distro snob are you?  I was a bit set back the other day when one of my former students gave me crap for running Red Hat 8.  I gave him his first Unix computer. It was just an old MicroVax running Ultrix but he really wanted it.I was more into VMS at the time and had my Alpha so I gave it to him. Besides I still had my SunOS5 account (yeah, this was a while back). But now he's dumping on me for running what he calls commercialized bloatware.He's running some flavor of BSD.

Distro snobbery can only hurt "The Cause" and give support to the windroids of the world.  Prefer your flavor, but give the others respect.

Or so it said on the bottom of the last beer bottle  

Jim

[voidmain]

Your student must have been brainwashed by those BSDers.    Many people who run BSD have a severe hate for anything Linux, not just Red Hat. I don't know what the big deal is, I run them both. I just think Linux is easier on the n00b but yet is still UNIX underneath (even though GNU is not UNIX).

[choasforages]

UNIX DAMNIT!!!
im trying to get my hands on machines that run different kinds of unix then the normal ones i mess with everyday/*NetBSD and Linux, NetBSD for the stable server, and linux for the desktop*/ i want an sgi indy so i can screwaround with irix, and a dec box, so i can mess with Tru64, a sun box to use solaris on. and a 486 and a copy of xenix

[voidmain]

As far as Slowaris you can download the x86 version from Sun. Then you don't need to get another box. Of course it is slightly different on a Sparc when it comes to booting and low level drivers, etc...

[choasforages]

yeah, i wanna mess with something other then exeateshit

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
As far as Slowaris you can download the x86 version from Sun. Then you don't need to get another box. Of course it is slightly different on a Sparc when it comes to booting and low level drivers, etc...

I was talking to one of the kernel developers for BeOS, and he has a hobby: to collect different boxes. He was telling me about Solaris, and let me in on a little secret: Sun started selling Solaris for the x86 now. You can't download it.

[Master of Reality]

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
$20 to dl solaris8 for x86 or SPARC and free to dl Solaris9 for SPARC and not yet available for x86

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:


I was talking to one of the kernel developers for BeOS, and he has a hobby: to collect different boxes. He was telling me about Solaris, and let me in on a little secret: Sun started selling Solaris for the x86 now. You can't download it.

Yes they are charging for the x86 version but 20 bucks isn't all that bad. I never said it was free (although it used to be). It's a hell of a lot cheaper than going out and buying a Sparc system, especially if you only want to play. Of course I have all versions of Solaris in boxed set CDs for both Sparc and Intel from Solaris 2.5.0 on up. No I'm not going to sell or give any away, although I should because Linux is 100 times better than Solaris for home machines and web servers. I had around 50 Sparc/Solaris machines and I am no huge fan of Solaris. I like the Sun hardware though and Solaris runs best on that hardware.

[ December 24, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

umm, i would be running solarise/*some sall it slowalrise*/ for x86 if it i had some some 440 chipset based machiens

[Neuro7]

I have tried different versions of Linux and a couple of versions of BSD, but I personally think that BSD is better suited to servers. I prefer Linux for the desktop. I have been using Red Hat pretty solid for almost a year now. Just my 2 cents worth!

Neuro7

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Your student must have been brainwashed by those BSDers.     Many people who run BSD have a severe hate for anything Linux, not just Red Hat. I don't know what the big deal is, I run them both. I just think Linux is easier on the n00b but yet is still UNIX underneath (even though GNU is not UNIX).

Its funny you say this as I just tried out freeBSD recently and was thoroughly dissappointed. I guess linux is my true love after all.

[choasforages]

if it NVIDIA drivers, and usb 2.0 drivers and awsome sound drives existed for it it would install NetBSD on my main machine, but as it is, its very happy to run my server

[choasforages]

and the packages system doesn't remind me of a crack addict with it's dependancys