Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-04-16, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for >> prompting me to add my 2 cents. > Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva > almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM > dependancy merry-go-round that used to happen so often. I've > reinstalled a couple times after major hardware upgrades (disk > failure) or decisions to switch from 32 to 64 bits. But I've never > needed to routinely reinstall from scratch the way I always had to > with RPM-based distros (Mandriva and before that RedHat). With > RPM-based distros, upgading across major numbers rarely worked. And I > always ended up having to build a lot of libraries and apps from > source anyway because of required library version clashes. > > I still have to regularly install and use RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu in > order to test apps/drivers I maintain -- and I'm always glad when I > can take off the straigh-jacket and handcuffs and go back to Gentoo. > > -- > Grant > >
I started using Linux with Mandrake 9.1. After about six months of dealing with the dependency problems and that pesky init thingy, I starting looking for something else. The upgrades were never easy and that init thingy would stop working for some reason and then I'd have to reinstall again. To this day, I really have no affection for the init thingy. Right now, I have three or four sets of kernels/init thingys around just in case. I've installed Mangio, replacement for Mandrake/Mandriva, and it's not as bad as it once was but I wouldn't want to have to install it here. I'm sure after a few upgrades, it would get ugly. Moving to Gentoo was the best thing I ever did. I may change again one day but it would require some serious screwing up. Dale :-) :-)
