On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Andrew Savory wrote:
As Brett mentioned, it would be useful to get an idea of who is going on Sunday, and if there's anything in particular you want to see. Let me know if you have any download requests etc, too.
I'll come on two conditions:
1. My house-hunting on Fri/Sat doesn't get in the way 2. Someone can provide transport from the Eaton Park area of Norwich.
I will be bringing a few Debian CDs with me (trying to convince y'all to switch to a proper distribution ;-) so let me know in advance if you want a copy (I know I still owe someone a CD from last meeting).
Cool. Y'know, I've been waiting for the new Debian (2.2?) to come out before switching from RH6, but since this seems still miles off, I just tonight decided to clean out my current Linux and Windows mounts, reinstall RH6 hopfully taking one of the Windows data partitions too (I'm only using Windows for multimedia and when my employers want me to do DreamWeaver or ASP stuff now) and use RPM for installations from now on.
My only problem with Debian is that the .deb packages seem a great deal less in distribution/access than .rpms. Go to a software website, you can more likely download .tar.gz and .rpms, but never .debs. And where .rpms aren't available, there's often a .spec file in the tarball for me to go rpm -ta <tarball> with; I don't know about .debs on this point, but I would doubt if such preparedness was true for both systems.
So, can you convice me that I can grab, or build myself, .debs from latest tarballs pretty much as soon as sources are released? I'm talking mainly glib/gtk/gnome here; I'll want to build gnome and e from cvs sources.
And how easy is it to build .spec files for packages? The same for the Debian guys too with their way... God I wish FSF would get it's act together and build a GNU package manager for all distros. It's the one area where Linux is totally beaten be Windows :(