Text 9164, 66 rader
Skriven 2007-01-30 21:13:50 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13)
   Kommentar till text 9163 av David Calafrancesco (1:2624/306.0)
Ärende: Fun find from the past
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Hey David!

Jan 30 15:24 07, David Calafrancesco wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 DC> I have a friend who has used the PowerPC, SParc, Arm and possibly one 
 DC> or two more platforms in addition to his x86 systems. 

I'd like to try something like that myself but the bank says otherwise.  :-/

 DC> By changing to not use debs you lose much of why you would want to 
 DC> run a Debian system. For you, Slackware or something similar might be 
 DC> best.

I'd go one step further and replace 'might' with 'would' in the 'For you'
sentence above.  :-)

Works for me.

 DC> Alternatively, you could learn to package your own .deb files 
 DC> and work your system that way.

Years ago, in a land not far away, I used to play with an application that
coverted all sorts of packages, deb included, to gzipped compressed tarballs. 
I forget the name but it fell by the wayside simply due to lack of need/use.  I
found that I preferred building things myself from the source to be more
worthwhile overall.  If I feel a need to create a pkg of whatever I tend to
stick to gzipped, moreso bzip2 these days, tarballs that can be later installed
for whatever reason.  The Slackware 'installpkg' utility has no issues with
them and will create a filelist based on the named package in
/var/log/packages.  Does everything it needs to do without as much bloat as deb
or rpm and the output is text so it is compatible with everything important.

 DC> See Linspire for an example of a Debian based distro that includes 
 DC> proprietary software.

My cousin claimed to like that one.  Beats me how long it survived there but
they lost me right off the bat.  Slackware definetly wins between those two
choices without me even having to ponder it.

 DC> I think Xandros might be similarly based upon 
 DC> Debian.

Have yet to see one of those.

 DC> Mepis is also Debian based and I believe has a per pay 
 DC> commercial suite of applications included. Ububtu has a slightly 
 DC> different idea of what is meant by free.

Reminds me too much of other distributions with a simular strategy.  I can
understand why others would be attracted to Ubuntu.  The neighbour hasn't given
up on it ... yet.  <EG>

 DC> They seem willing to 
 DC> incorporate compiled and released to the masses for free items, 
 DC> whereas Debian itself won't distribute something whose doc files 
 DC> aren't also considered free and open source. See the Debian.org 
 DC> website for specifics. 

I knew that.  I think it is a good idea.  Now if they could just cut down on
all the stinkin' dependencies they might get somewhere with that plan.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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