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Steve Roome wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:05:55AM +0000, Matt Hamilton wrote:
>   
>> I class myself as a pretty experienced unix user, but still even I  
>> swear at redhat when trying to use it.  I guess I just don't know  
>> 'the redhat way'. 
>>     
>
> That's why I stopped using redhat last time - I eventually got this
> redhatupdatedaemon working and then found out that my cut down redhat
> install already had over 500 things that I'd have expected to be e.g.
> in the ports!
>
> Scary. But then, Solaris isn't a whole lot better either, and MacOSX
> has a few millions package management tools.
>
> I think we're spoilt with FreeBSD, always start worrying if i'm
> downloading source and compiling it myself these days - I'd rather
> it'd been tested first by someone else. :)
>
>         Steve
>
>
>   
bsd is the bomb... wouldn't put anything else on a server, these days.
rx