Re: Redhat 5.0 (was tlug: various stuff)

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 matt@example.com wrote:

matt>glibc seems to work fine. Could be my imagination, but some of the
matt>heavy command-line tools (gzip & tar, for instance) seem to run faster 
matt>now.

I've heard that glibc was faster on some applications.  

matt>The other problem is bloat. If RedHat keeps going the way they are,
matt>they might as well put everything in one big unbreakable package like
matt>Microsoft. Anyway, there are some pretty absurd dependencies, like:

This was my major reason for going with Debian 1.2 a while
back.  Debian is really nice to install a simple bare bones
system and work from there.  Red Hat is a bit heavy.  For
example, I never use Tcl/Tk, but it was required for the
RH control panel.  

There are some other things I didn't like about it, but
the glibc support is nice.  A lot of packages are out in
RPM format now.  

Anyway, I've got it on a disk
right now.  All I have to do is configure Lilo properly
and I'll be able to boot it.  Right now, I'm moving the
physical hard disks around which is really tedious.   What
I want to do is just select either redhat, windows95, debian-stable,
or debian-devel at the boot prompt.  



Regards,
Craig
 


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