Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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I installed Suse 9.1 last week, and not only did it have 5 cd-roms, I also had to choose from a list of hundreds of programs, to make sure I would have all dependencies resolved.
That's utter nonsense. SuSE Yast does resolve dependencies for you, and has been doing so since prehistoric times. My first SuSE was 4.4 or thereabouts, and even that did it.
As long as you stick with one version of one distribution there's no problem with RPM, it only gets difficult once you start upgrading things or installing RPMs intended for other distributions.
If you don't want to trawl through the packages to decide what you want, just use one of the predefined profiles. And if you do find a particular program is missing you simply use the package search function.
What a stupid article.