On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 14:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > I still can't follow their logic: why would you buy a dedicated lindows > > box if their linux side is bad and their windows side is bad. Seems to me > > it will be useful for either: > > I still don't get it why do u think their lindows is bad? the user issue will > be fixed next version. Plus you got all those deb packages so you don't have > RPM depdendency problems,
deb is not a magic bullet for packaging. dpkg and apt-get are easy to break. What makes debian's distro work great is that they follow their policy and try to avoid breaking stuff. I had some bad experince with storm linux (2.0.6), which was (the company is now out of business) a debian-based distro. All I wanted was to compile some gtk-based programs. I needed to install the gtk-dev package (or is it libgtk1.2-dev? whatever). But the storm CD did no include it. So I wanted to grab the package from the near-by debian potato mirror, but then it turned out that they were using a version of gtk from helix-gnome, and since it was of a higher version than potato's one (but much lower than the one currently availble at helix) I could not simply apt-get it. The way I saw it, I had a number of alternatives, and all of them invloved changes to core system libraries (and hence a source of trouble, and not suggested to a newbie): * rebuild the potato glib and gtk packages for my system * Grab the newer-than-unstable packages from helix. Upgrade all of gnome, and some other components along the way. [no, thank you, I have better ways to ruin my system] * Try to force the use of the potato -dev packages [probably a bad idea] In the end I chose the fourth choice and upgraded the whole system... You can count of Lindows to use some non-standard packages. I wouldn't be surprised if they used their own X packages, helix-gnome, and oher non-standard debian components. I leave it as an exercise to you to try to install some missing packages on that system. > and you'll have some "wizard" for connecting to > network (dial up, ethernet, adsl, etc), printers, winmodems and other stuff.. > > And of course you got their wine which runs MS Office, Lotus stuff and few > other apps. Whats wrong with that? Nothing is wrong with that. It's the overhead I have problems with... > > > 1. windows users who don't know linux better > > 2. windows users, on a dedicated machine > > Or people who had it with windows licensing and want to use their (already > purchased) office 2000 licenses on a more stable OS. As for "more stable": I have yet to see it. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
